On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 07:35:38PM +0200, Paul Fleischer wrote: > On Sunday 02 May 2004 03:16, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Paul, > > > > Now that beta4 is out, what are your plans of getting mdcfg and > > partman-md uploaded to get some testing? > > As I am not sure how to go about it, I have no plans. But I am very > interrested in getting them uploaded, so that we can get a larger testing > base. > > > What's the status of these programs? > > Actually, they are quite useable. mdcfg currently only supports RAID1, but it > can easily be extended. > > There are three major showstoppers for a sucessfull installation with software > RAID right now: > > 1) Neither the grub nor the lilo installer can handle md-devices it at all. > They fail miserably when both /boot and / partitions are md-devices.
You sure? When I last played with RAID1 and mdadm, I had GRUB doing funky stuff with everything being on MD devices. > 2) The initrd image generated by mkinitrd only activates the first md-device > for some weird reason. mkinitrd is fussy, the mirror must be fully built and healthy to be used. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]