On 21-Jan-99 Danny Yee wrote:
>
> I'm having problems with raid-5, however. My first attempt failed
> running mke2fs, with a "Killed" appearing half way through. Next
> attempt (with a different setup) the mke2fs worked and the device
> mounted fine, but when I run Bonnie it quits with a "Killed" error. I
> presume that error is coming from the kernel md driver, so it looks
> like a raid problem.
>
> [root@tekelili]# Bonnie -s 900 -m raid5.5 -d .
> File './Bonnie.1149', size: 943718400
> Writing with putc()...done
> Rewriting...done
> Writing intelligently...Killed
I haven't tried a raid-5 partition yet, maybe I'll try later. (Even if it's
just 3-partitions on one disk.)
> It would be really good if raid worked without patches in 2.2.0...
Sure would, but there doesn't seem to be any linux-raid maintainers on this
list anyway... If so, they don't say anything. 2.2.0 is very close now, and
it would be a shame not to have working software-raid in it.
-Dave
