Re: Network raid

1999-01-07 Thread Dori Seliskar
Michael wrote: > Several months ago someone mentioned an implementation of network > raid where the individual raid partitions are nfs mounts or something > like that. > > I would appreciate the reference again, have and application. > > Thanks > Michael > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael, it is calle

Re: RAID1 on / for RH 5.2

1999-01-07 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Mike Brodbelt writes: > Get rid of the raidtools that shipped with RedHat. Then remove all reference to > RAID in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt. Then get hold of the > raidtools 0.90 source, and compile that. Kernel - 2.0.38 doesn't exist :-). I > suggest using a clean 2.0.36 sour

halp in appliyng raid patches to 2.2.0pre4

1999-01-07 Thread Luca Berra
hello i was trying to apply raid0145-19981215 to 2.2.0pre4 but int try_to_free_buffer(struct buffer_head * bh, struct buffer_head ** bhp) become int try_to_free_buffers(struct page * page_map) and buffer_head does not contain a reference to the page anymore linux/include/linux/fs.h does not def

Re: Network raid

1999-01-07 Thread Ron C.
Check out: Network Block Device: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/il1/~pavel/nbd/nbd.html Coda File System: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Michael wrote: > Several months ago someone mentioned an implementation of network > raid where the individual raid partitions are nfs moun

Re: RAID1 on / for RH 5.2

1999-01-07 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 05:59:33PM -, Jack Gavigan wrote: > RAID. The Software RAID Howto is less of a HOWTO than a FAQ for experienced > RAIDers... Took me about 20 minutes to figure out that mdadd and raidadd are > actually the same thing. :) since the raid software is still in alpha stage t

Some hw v. sw RAID benchmarks

1999-01-07 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Here for your edification and amusement are some benchmarks comparing hardware v. software RAID for fairly similar setups. Sun sell two versions of their 12-disk hot-swap dual-everything disk array (codename Dilbert): * the D1000 is a "dumb" array presenting 6 disks on each of two Ultra Wide

Re: RAID1 on / for RH 5.2

1999-01-07 Thread Geof Goodrum
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Jack Gavigan wrote: > My question, I guess, is: Am I right in thinking that it's necessary to > create a script in rc2.d which executes raidrun and mount, and another in > rc0.d which runs unmount and raidstop, to mount and unmount my raid > partition? You don't need new scri

Re: RAID1 on / for RH 5.2

1999-01-07 Thread Martin Bene
Hi Jack, At 17:59 04.01.99 -, you wrote: >I can sympathise. I decided to postpone trying to RAID the root partition >until later - much later. At least until I fully understand Linux Software >RAID. The Software RAID Howto is less of a HOWTO than a FAQ for experienced >RAIDers... Took me abou

Newbie RAID problems

1999-01-07 Thread John P . Looney
Hi, sorry to bother you all about this, but I have a few questions. First: I'm working off the latest snapshot of Raidtools-0.90, and a 2.2pre1 kernel, with RAID-1 built in (not as a module). In the QuickStart.RAID file, it says that mkraid will work like: $ mkraid /etc/raid1.conf It doe