Re: old raid tools dangerous with 2.6.18?

2006-10-01 Thread syrius . ml
Richard Bollinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears that raidhotadd doesn't always trigger a resync under 2.6.18. Starting with a broken raid1 mirror: Same with evms and 2.6.18. it does not trigger the raid1 resync in any case. (while it does with 2.6.17) Have these tools to be updated ?

Recipe for Mirrored OS Drives

2006-10-01 Thread andy liebman
A few weeks ago, I promised that I would put my recipe here for creating mirrored OS drives from an existing OS Drive. This recipe combines what I learned from MANY OTHER sometimes conflicting documents on the same subject -- documents that were probably developed for earlier kernels and

Simulating Drive Failure on Mirrored OS drive

2006-10-01 Thread andy liebman
Various documents on Mirrored OS Drives suggest you can simulate the failure of one of your mirrored pairs by marking one or more partitions as failed with mdadm. Indeed when I mark a drive as failed, if I have the mdadm monitoring daemon running, I get an email warning me that my RAIDS are