On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:07:42PM +0200, Karl-Heinz Herrmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 10-Aug-00 Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> >> If the patch is not clean (i.e. rejects) you probably had a kernel
> >> patched
> >> with the old style md-raid. The patch is probably against a clean kernel
> >> source.
>
> > Indeed, I had some rejects. Uh.
>
> Then there is some problem like that. If you have your kernel running, what
> does "cat /proc/mdstat" say? There is a little difference between the
> output between the old "mdstyle" raid and the newer code (suitable with the
> new raidtools-0.90).
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
>
>
> >> Either get a clean kernel or a patch against your kernel version (could
> >> be difficult).
> >
> > Getting a clean kernel would be difficult since I'm already using a
> > kernel with SMP patches.
>
>
> Hopefully a clean kernel is not necessary -- but a kernel without the
> md-raid-patches.
>
> Have a look at:
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/
>
> There are raidpatches *and* smp patches of which I hope they are compatible.
>
>
> I've no idea where to find old md-style patches, but if you get one
> matching your version you could reverse-patch your kernel and apply the new
> one.
>
> Or have a look what actually collides in your reject-files.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
>
> K.-H.
>
Thanks
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
