On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Jakob Østergaard wrote:
>
> To everyone on linux-raid:
> It seems improbable that the 0.90 raid stuff will go into 2.4 currently. This
> is catastrophic. We need to try Ingo's patch, and give it all the testing we
> can. If enough people try the patch and we can give a reasonable argument that
> it is stable - possibly after ironing out any errors there might be - it
> _could_ go into 2.4. We want this to happen.
>
> It is important that we get a decent RAID subsystem in the 2.4 kernel. But this
> will not happen unless we give Ingo's new stuff a *lot* of testing.
>
> I will test on two systems (at least), and I beg everyone out there who have a
> spare system to try the patch too. Find the bugs, report performance
> differences to linux-kernel and linux-raid, and let's get a decent RAID
> subsystem in 2.4.
>
I fully agree with you, but I did apply the patch but the system would not
boot. I posted this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (see below) but did get
no responce (I assume Ingo is very busy at the moment). I am more then
willing to test this, but someone needs to tell me what I am doing wrong.
Holger
Here is my original post from 17th January:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> here is the first alpha version of the '2.4 RAID merge' patch against
> pre4-2.3.40:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/ibc-ext2-raid-2.3.40-N1
>
Doesn't work for me. When booting system locks up with the following output:
ll_rw_block: Trying to read nonexixtent block-device 09:01 (1)
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Invalid session number or type of track
Invalid session number
ll_rw_block: Trying to read nonexixtent block-device 09:01 (32)
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:01, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:01
[Note: I copied this by hand]
System is a dual PIII-450, 256MB ECC, 6 IBM DNES 9GB LDV, ASUS P2B-DS with
onboard Adaptec U2W controller, kernel 2.3.40-pre4, RH 6.1. /boot is RAID1,
/ is RAID5 and /home is RAID0.
Did I forget anything? What did I do wrong?
Holger
