(replying to bits of several emails)
On Friday May 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > However some IO requests cannot complete until the filesystem I/O
> > completes, so we need to be sure that the filesystem I/O won't block
> > waiting for memory, or fail w
On Sunday May 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 14. Mai 2006 16:50 schrieben Sie:
> > > What do I need to do when I want to install a different distro on the
> > > machine with a raid5 array?
> > > Which files do I need? /etc/mdadm.conf? /etc/raittab? both?
> >
> > MD doesn't need any file
On Sunday May 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What do I need to do when I want to install a different distro on the machine
> with a raid5 array?
> Which files do I need? /etc/mdadm.conf? /etc/raittab? both?
That depends a lot on the distros.
Some really old distro might be using /etc/raidtab, an
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:Jim Klimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid
>
> Since the new parted worked ok (older one didn't), we were happy
> until we tried a reboot. During the device initialization and after
> it the system only recognises the 6 or 7 pa
> Now the devices have all two superblocks, the one left from the first try
> which are now kinda orphaned and those now active.
> Can I trust mdadm to handle this properly on its own?
I'm not sure what "properly" means. you should not leave around 0xfd
partitions with bogus superblocks, since
Am Sonntag, 14. Mai 2006 16:50 schrieben Sie:
> > What do I need to do when I want to install a different distro on the
> > machine with a raid5 array?
> > Which files do I need? /etc/mdadm.conf? /etc/raittab? both?
>
> MD doesn't need any files to function, since it can auto-assemble
> arrays base
> What do I need to do when I want to install a different distro on the machine
> with a raid5 array?
> Which files do I need? /etc/mdadm.conf? /etc/raittab? both?
MD doesn't need any files to function, since it can auto-assemble
arrays based on their superblocks (for partition-type 0xfd).
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To
Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Saturday May 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Paul Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > > The loss of pagecache coherency seems sad. I assume there's never a
> > > > requirement for userspace to read this fil
On Saturday May 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Paul Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > The loss of pagecache coherency seems sad. I assume there's never a
> > > requirement for userspace to read this file.
> >
> > Actually, there is. mdadm reads the bitmap
