Can someone e-mail me (or give me an alternate ftp site for)
raidtools v0.90 & the latest 2.0.35 patch.
I've been trying to get to ftp.kernel.org for the past day now
with no luck connecting.
Thanks.
Steve
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-----Original Message-----
From: MOLNAR Ingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Stephen Costaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: Can't rebuild RAID5?
>
>On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Stephen Costaras wrote:
>
>> I have a RAID5 array comprised of 8 scsi disks (/dev/sd[b-i]1)
>> with /dev/sdb1 being the first disk of the array. I'm using
>> raidtools-0.51 under kernel 2.0.35.
>>
>> The first disk /dev/sdb1 failed. the raid continues as normal
>> like it should. Now when I try to replace the disk with another
>> fresh 4gig drive I cannot get the array to start a rebuild process.
>
>that version of the RAID code does not yet do a proper reconstruction. Use
>the 0.90 version of raidtools to 'mkraid --upgrade /dev/md0' your array,
>then use the 0.90 driver and do a:
>
> raidhotremove /dev/md0 /dev/sd<failed>
> raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sd<newone>
>
>(the remove might be unnecessary probably the kernel detects that the
>original disk is gone and removes references to it. Important: dont use
>mkraid --forcesuperblockonly tricks because your array already has new
>data written since the failure, and only the newest 0.90 code handles this
>correctly. Let me know if you still in doubt about something.)
>
>-- mingo
>
>
