On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, m. allan noah wrote:
Thanks for a couple of people who pointed me to the answer. I've
learned a lot about raid today but have a ways to go.
> is your system redhat 5.2? if so, do:
>
> rpm -e raidtools
It is redhat and this was my mistake. I thought I did this, but
had not. The make install was touching the raidstart file but
not updating it.
Everything is working now after a couple more mistakes. But so
far I haven't lost any data so I consider it a learning success.
A sidenote, I am unable to do a mke2fs bs=4096 -R stride=8
/dev/md0. It comes back with an invalid argument message. A
simple mke2fs /dev/md0 works fine. Things do seem to get
confusing and I run out of memory if I do the mke2fs while the
raid array is reconstructing. Waiting until its complete will
work fine.
A new question: Is is possible to add additional disks into the
raid 5 array if it was not in the list when you did a mkraid?
If so how?
And while I'm at it... is a raid 5 array with only 2 disks
of any use at all? From my understanding, raid 5 with two
drives is worthless, but I still don't quite grep how data is
written across the drives.
Here's the problem. I have 3 drives I'd like to make raid 5, but
one of them has to initially get the system loaded/installed.
Once the other two devices are built and I can boot off them, I
can turn the first drive into part of the array if that's
possible. Any suggestions?
Stephen Denny mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hex.Net Superhighway http://www.hex.net
