Re: SW-RAID support (was: Who do you have to sleep with...)
On Monday 12 April 2004 13:56, Paul Fleischer wrote: [snip] > I can check it in, if that is what people want (I should have access for it > now). > Right now I have 2 (udeb)packages: mdcfg and partman-md. So, I just put > them in trunk/packages/mdcfg and trunk/packages/partman/partman-md ? Ok, since noone complained I guess it was ok. mdcfg and partman-md are now checked in. I have send a patch to Mario Joussen (mdadm maintainer) for a mdadm-udeb package, so hopefully we will have this soon too. I haven't had time to build a new ISO yet, but I have had one successfull installation with LILO as my boot-loader. The initrd image installed on the target had some issues that I will have to look into a bit further. Expect a new cdimage soon :-) Now I need some sleep, -- Paul Fleischer // ProGuy PGP key fingerprint: 755A 9FB3 F7E4 DB62 8154 C5D6 381B BBCD 7BE1 FF30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: SW-RAID support (was: Who do you have to sleep with...)
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:56:04 +0200 Paul Fleischer wrote on debian-boot:
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> I can check it in, if that is what people want (I should have access
> for it now).
> Right now I have 2 (udeb)packages: mdcfg and partman-md. So, I just
> put them in trunk/packages/mdcfg and trunk/packages/partman/partman-md ?
>
> "mdcfg" kinda works, but the partman part is bugging me a bit.
> However, before anything works a mdadm-udeb is needed. I supose I just
> get in touch with the maintainer (joussen) of mdadm, right?
>
> > Mark, if you can test d-i SW-RAID support, this is great.
> > Testing (incl. giving qualified test reports) is the single
> > most important task for d-i, IMHO.
>
> I'm afraid it fails at everything right now :-) But with a bit of
> luck it might soon work ;-)
Maybe i was lucky, but yes, it (your iso image dated 2004-02-28) almost
works automatically. Except for a few easy problems as reported in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200404/msg01721.html
The manual interventions were:
- Change partitions to type 'fd' (Raid Autodetect).
- Clear previous garbage on partitions (dd if=/dev/zero of= ...
can be offered as an option after the error on detection of md).
- Suggest LILO (not GRUB) to boot from Raid-1 using a real disk
as boot device...
- Include normal lilo package in the image.
An extra could be to check if it is possible to recognize other raid
partitions apart from the root one after the first boot.
It worked ok for me, after leaving apart the pseudo-hardware Raid
support (actually it is software bios supported) in the Promise
Technologies FastTrack card.
I think that even in it present state it is worth to include in
the main trunk to allow more testing.
Best regards and thank you very much for your work.
Jose R.
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Re: SW-RAID support (was: Who do you have to sleep with...)
On Monday 12 April 2004 00:21, W. Borgert wrote: > Well, some people at Debian are very much interested in > SW-RAID. If only to use it on their Atari ST. > > Paul, it would be absolutely great, if your current work > would go into d-i SVN. Even if you think, that it's not > perfect yet. Your ISO didn't work for me, but if you put it > in SVN, other people can try to enhance it. If you don't > have much time at the moment, maybe you could send your code > to one of the d-i guys for check-in? Joey? Christian? I can check it in, if that is what people want (I should have access for it now). Right now I have 2 (udeb)packages: mdcfg and partman-md. So, I just put them in trunk/packages/mdcfg and trunk/packages/partman/partman-md ? "mdcfg" kinda works, but the partman part is bugging me a bit. However, before anything works a mdadm-udeb is needed. I supose I just get in touch with the maintainer (joussen) of mdadm, right? > Mark, if you can test d-i SW-RAID support, this is great. > Testing (incl. giving qualified test reports) is the single > most important task for d-i, IMHO. I'm afraid it fails at everything right now :-) But with a bit of luck it might soon work ;-) -- Paul Fleischer // ProGuy PGP key fingerprint: 755A 9FB3 F7E4 DB62 8154 C5D6 381B BBCD 7BE1 FF30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SW-RAID Support
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:23:42AM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Finn-Arne Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-01 11:51]: > | Any reasons for using raidtab ? > | Or was the before mdadm was mature ? > > well, raidtools2 are the quasi linux raid standard for me. I haven't > used mdadm myself. > > Maybe we should support both ways of raid creation. I went straight to using mdadm for RAID1, and it's pretty spiffy. Number one benefit would have to be there is no config file to parse. I recall when running earlier incarnations of d-i at medium priority, there used to be an md related udeb, that you had to also install along with lvmcfg, to get LVM to work, but it seems to have since disappeared. Has RAID1 in d-i died or am I not looking hard enough? regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SW-RAID Support
Hello, * Finn-Arne Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-01 11:51]: | > I have started some time ago, but never finsihed the stuff, so you can | > start on whatever you wan't :-) | > Maybe I can find the raidtab parsing code somewhere on my disk again | > (it's written in C). | | Any reasons for using raidtab ? | Or was the before mdadm was mature ? well, raidtools2 are the quasi linux raid standard for me. I haven't used mdadm myself. Maybe we should support both ways of raid creation. Bye Thorsten signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: SW-RAID Support
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 07:34:10PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Philipp Kolmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-31 19:20]: > | On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:15:28PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > | > * Philipp Kolmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-31 09:56]: > | > | Just tested the latest image from > | > | http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ > | > | sarge-i386-netinst.iso 30-Dec-2003 11:01 107M > | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso > | > | 8d88a368fc2225144b8592d75684 sarge-i386-netinst.iso > | > | and I wanted to have a software raid set up for the root-fs. But there > | > | seems to be no option for this. I think that this is quite crutial for > | > | an installer nowadays. Harddrives are fairly cheap and it gives one a > | > | better sleep, when you have a drive mirror. > | > patches/packages are always welcome! :-) > | Well is anyone already working on this topic? > > I have started some time ago, but never finsihed the stuff, so you can > start on whatever you wan't :-) > Maybe I can find the raidtab parsing code somewhere on my disk again > (it's written in C). Any reasons for using raidtab ? Or was the before mdadm was mature ? -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/?page=finnarne Registered Linux user #86307 (http://counter.li.org) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SW-RAID Support
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 07:20:55PM +0100, Philipp Kolmann wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:15:28PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > * Philipp Kolmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-31 09:56]: > > | Just tested the latest image from > > | http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ > > | sarge-i386-netinst.iso 30-Dec-2003 11:01 107M > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso > > | 8d88a368fc2225144b8592d75684 sarge-i386-netinst.iso > > | and I wanted to have a software raid set up for the root-fs. But there > > | seems to be no option for this. I think that this is quite crutial for > > | an installer nowadays. Harddrives are fairly cheap and it gives one a > > | better sleep, when you have a drive mirror. > > patches/packages are always welcome! :-) > Well is anyone already working on this topic? I've been fidling with SWRaid setup for the Skolelinux project ( http://developer.skolelinux.no ) NOt during install, but as a script afterwards. This is because i've always set things up that way, and managed to get it working. It's been on hold for some weeks though. -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/?page=finnarne Registered Linux user #86307 (http://counter.li.org) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SW-RAID Support
* Philipp Kolmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-31 19:20]: | On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:15:28PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: | > * Philipp Kolmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-31 09:56]: | > | Just tested the latest image from | > | http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ | > | sarge-i386-netinst.iso 30-Dec-2003 11:01 107M | > | | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso | > | 8d88a368fc2225144b8592d75684 sarge-i386-netinst.iso | > | | > | and I wanted to have a software raid set up for the root-fs. But there | > | seems to be no option for this. I think that this is quite crutial for | > | an installer nowadays. Harddrives are fairly cheap and it gives one a | > | better sleep, when you have a drive mirror. | > | > patches/packages are always welcome! :-) | | Well is anyone already working on this topic? I have started some time ago, but never finsihed the stuff, so you can start on whatever you wan't :-) Maybe I can find the raidtab parsing code somewhere on my disk again (it's written in C). Bye Thorsten signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: SW-RAID Support
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:15:28PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Philipp Kolmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-31 09:56]: > | Just tested the latest image from > | http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ > | sarge-i386-netinst.iso 30-Dec-2003 11:01 107M > | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso > | 8d88a368fc2225144b8592d75684 sarge-i386-netinst.iso > | > | and I wanted to have a software raid set up for the root-fs. But there > | seems to be no option for this. I think that this is quite crutial for > | an installer nowadays. Harddrives are fairly cheap and it gives one a > | better sleep, when you have a drive mirror. > > patches/packages are always welcome! :-) Well is anyone already working on this topic? Philipp -- Life is not fair, but the root password helps! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SW-RAID Support
* Philipp Kolmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-31 09:56]: | Hi! | | Just tested the latest image from | http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ | sarge-i386-netinst.iso 30-Dec-2003 11:01 107M | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso | 8d88a368fc2225144b8592d75684 sarge-i386-netinst.iso | | and I wanted to have a software raid set up for the root-fs. But there | seems to be no option for this. I think that this is quite crutial for | an installer nowadays. Harddrives are fairly cheap and it gives one a | better sleep, when you have a drive mirror. patches/packages are always welcome! :-) Bye Thorsten signature.asc Description: Digital signature
