On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 01:43:38PM +0100, Holger Kiehl wrote:
>
...[snip]...
>
> 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?
I tried 2.2.40pre4 with the RAID patch as well. Boot support doesn't compile
and neither does RAID5 support. With those disabled I was able to compile the
kernel and boot a system (IDE though).
But the kernel was shaky as h*ll :)
Swap partitions didn't work, swap-files did ``sort-of''. Processes was killed
with OOM etc. etc. All in all not a very pleasing experience.
I guess one should either just try out new kernel patches (.41pre etc.) or take
the time it takes to help development and bugfixing. I hadn't expected the .40
kernels to be that shaky (I ran late .3X kernels with a fair amount of success)
but somehow there's been a lot of changes lately needing testing a fixing. It's
probably all for the best, this way we won't get unoccupied and hang around the
street corners selling crack and stuff ;)
Seriously though, there's a lot of interesting testing fixing to be done. I
underestimated that when I asked people to just give the RAID patch a lot of
testing. My bummer, I should have tested it myself before asking others.
Cheers all,
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