Take a look at the Software RAID HOWTO, which can be found at
http://www.LinuxDoc.org/. It has lots of great Software RAID information.
Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fnijen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: debian software raid
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> For my internship I have install a root raid system which use
> the debian
> operating system. All the information and readme's I've found
> are pretty
> outdated and while I'm not a totall newbie on configuring and
> maintanance
> of debian systems I'm a bit nervous on taking up this task.
> It will be a
> production machine, so I want to make sure I'm doing this correctly.
>
> First of all, does someone has a short practical guide on
> raid-5 and debian
> linux?
> Any pitfalls to look out for?
> And are the different readme's and howto's still up to date?
> I saw that
> most documents are dated 97/98, we are some years and kernels
> further now...
>
> The patch for the shutdown of a raid system in the root-raid
> mini howto i
> found gave errors
> while patching a 2.2.14 kernel. This does not primary mean
> that the patch
> does not work, it could be me :) but
> I would love to hear a confirmation that all procedures in
> the howtos are
> still acurate!
>
> Any help and hints appreciated!
>
> Frank
>