RE: FAQ update
-Original Message- From: James Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 6:08 AM To: Linux Raid list (E-mail) Subject: Re: FAQ update [Luca Berra] The patches for 2.2.14 and later kernels are at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/. Use the right patch for your kernel, these patches haven't worked on other kernel revisions yet. i'd add: dont use netscape to fetch patches from mingo's site, it hurts use lynx/wget/curl/lftp Yes, *please* *please* *please* I need some clarification on this. I couldn't make lynx work, it chopped off long lines or something. wget works, I've never heard of the other two. Why exactly is NetScrape bad? That server load thing sounds fishy to me... Greg
Re: FAQ update
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 08:47:47AM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote: -Original Message- From: James Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 6:08 AM To: Linux Raid list (E-mail) Subject: Re: FAQ update [Luca Berra] The patches for 2.2.14 and later kernels are at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/. Use the right patch for your kernel, these patches haven't worked on other kernel revisions yet. i'd add: dont use netscape to fetch patches from mingo's site, it hurts use lynx/wget/curl/lftp Yes, *please* *please* *please* I need some clarification on this. I couldn't make lynx work, it chopped off long lines or something. wget works, I've never heard of the other two. Why exactly is NetScrape bad? That server load thing sounds fishy to me... Greg ok, i'll clarify NutScrape may not work for the same reason lynx failed for you redhat server says the file is text/plain so both netscape and lynx fail if you view the file and than save it to a local file. If you Shift-click on netscape or press 'd' on lynx it should work. i don't give a damn about the load on redhat http server, but i don't like receiving tons of mails saying that the patch from mingo site fails for them. L. P.S. someone could suggest mingo gzips the blasted patches : -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media Services S.r.l.
Re: FAQ update
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:47:23PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote: Here's a new version, with a couple of changes. What other questions get asked all the time? Greg The patches for 2.2.14 and later kernels are at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/. Use the right patch for your kernel, these patches haven't worked on other kernel revisions yet. i'd add: dont use netscape to fetch patches from mingo's site, it hurts use lynx/wget/curl/lftp -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media Services S.r.l.
Re: FAQ update
Luca Berra wrote: i'd add: dont use netscape to fetch patches from mingo's site, it hurts use lynx/wget/curl/lftp Works fine for me. -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Architect http://www.schernau.com RC5-64#: 243249 e-gold acct #:131897
Re: FAQ update
[Luca Berra] The patches for 2.2.14 and later kernels are at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/. Use the right patch for your kernel, these patches haven't worked on other kernel revisions yet. i'd add: dont use netscape to fetch patches from mingo's site, it hurts use lynx/wget/curl/lftp Yes, *please* *please* *please* -- James Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = B913 2FBD 14A9 CE18 B2B7 9C8E A0BF B026 EEBB F6E4
Re: FAQ update
Yo Luca! On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Edward Schernau wrote: i'd add: dont use netscape to fetch patches from mingo's site, it hurts use lynx/wget/curl/lftp Works fine for me. We are not worried about you. We are worried about mingos FTP server. If you access an FPT server with Netscape it puts a much greater load on the server than if you access it with a plain old ftp client. RGDS GARY --- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
FAQ update
Here's a new version, with a couple of changes. What other questions get asked all the time? Greg Linux-RAID FAQ Gregory Leblanc gleblanc (at) cu-portland.edu Revision History Revision v0.02 4 August 2000 Revised by: gml Revised a the How do I patch? and the What does /proc/mdstat look like? questions. Revision v0.01 31 July 2000 Revised by: gml Initial draft of this FAQ. This is a FAQ for the Linux-RAID mailing list, hosted on vger.rutgers.edu. It's intended as a supplement to the existing Linux-RAID HOWTO, to cover questions that keep occurring on the mailing list. PLEASE read this document before your post to the list. _ 1. General 1.1. Where can I find archives for the linux-raid mailing list? 2. Kernel 2.1. I'm running the DooDad Linux Distribution. Do I need to patch my kernel to make RAID work? 2.2. How can I tell if I need to patch my kernel? 2.3. Where can I get the latest RAID patches for my kernel? 2.4. How do I apply the patch to a kernel that I just downloaded from ftp.kernel.org? 1. General 1.1. Where can I find archives for the linux-raid mailing list? My favorite archives are at Geocrawler. Other archives are available at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raidr=1w=2 Another archive site is http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu/. 2. Kernel 2.1. I'm running the DooDad Linux Distribution. Do I need to patch my kernel to make RAID work? Well, the short answer is, it depends. Distributions that are keeping up to date have the RAID patches included in their kernels. The kernel that RedHat distributes, as do some others. If you download a 2.2.x kernel from ftp.kernel.org, then you will need to patch your kernel. 2.2. How can I tell if I need to patch my kernel? The easiest way is to check what's in /proc/mdstat. Here's a sample from a 2.2.x kernel, with the RAID patches applied. [gleblanc@grego1 gleblanc]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [translucent] read_ahead not set unused devices: none [gleblanc@grego1 gleblanc]$ If the contents of /proc/mdstat looks like the above, then you don't need to patch your kernel. Here's a sample from a 2.2.x kernel, without the RAID patches applied. [root@finch root]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5] read_ahead not set md0 : inactive md1 : inactive md2 : inactive md3 : inactive If your /proc/mdstat looks like this one, then you need to patch your kernel. 2.3. Where can I get the latest RAID patches for my kernel? The patches for the 2.2.x kernels up to, and including, 2.2.13 are available from ftp.kernel.org. Use the kernel patch that most closely matches your kernel revision. For example, the 2.2.11 patch can also be used on 2.2.12 and 2.2.13. The patches for 2.2.14 and later kernels are at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/. Use the right patch for your kernel, these patches haven't worked on other kernel revisions yet. 2.4. How do I apply the patch to a kernel that I just downloaded from ftp.kernel.org? First, unpack the kernel into some directory, generally people use /usr/src/linux. Change to this directory, and type patch -p1 /path/to/raid-version.patch. On my RedHat 6.2 system, I decompressed the 2.2.16 kernel into /usr/src/linux-2.2.16. From /usr/src/linux-2.2.16, I type in patch -p1 /home/gleblanc/raid-2.2.16-A0. Then I rebuild the kernel using make menuconfig and related builds.
