Re: Recent documentation

1998-10-28 Thread jakob
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 06:04:28PM +0200, Louis Mandelstam wrote: > Good day - > > The HOWTO, README, Quickstart and manpages included in the 981005-0.90 > raidtools appear to be rather outdated. Yes. It pissed me of so badly that I wrote a new raid5.HOWTO which will be in the next release (I ho

howto upgrade / autorun no longer possible with newest patch/raidtools??

1998-10-28 Thread Claudia =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller
hallo, I have 2 questions: 1. How is it possible to safely upgrade an existing raid array to the newest Kernelpatch/raidtools? I tried following steps: got an original kernel, patched it, compiled it. Rebooted, the raidarray could not be initialized automatically anymore. I stopped the raidarray

Root raid5 w/ current patches.

1998-10-28 Thread Stephen Costaras
I'm just starting to play with the idea to put my entire root file system under RAID5. Now I know that the docs are way out of date for this (having played with RAID5 for several data arrays). Does anyone have any current pointers for information on doing this? I'm looking for something real sim

Recent documentation

1998-10-28 Thread Louis Mandelstam
Good day - The HOWTO, README, Quickstart and manpages included in the 981005-0.90 raidtools appear to be rather outdated. Also, none of the links I've bee able to locate on the web, appear to provide more recent information. Where can I obtain some more relevant information on e.g. the usage of

Re: md5 becomes mdf when mdadd'ed under 2.1.135 -- expected ?

1998-10-28 Thread Kersten Bühnert
Jeff Hahn wrote: > > >under Linux you can use another partitioning scheme too, BSD > disklabels. > >But any nontrivial combination of block ranges needs something like > >LINEAR. But otherwise i aggree that there might be place for a new RAID > >level called 'SPLICE' or the ability to partition a