RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 patch 1999.01.08, 2.0.36/2.2.0-pre5

1999-01-09 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
i've just released Linux-RAID 1999.01.08, you can find raid0145-19990108-2.0.36 and raid0145-19990108-2.2.0-pre5 (no new raidtools) in the usual alpha directory: http://www..kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha [mirrors should have synced up by the time you have received this email]

Re: RAID1 on / for RH 5.2

1999-01-09 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Chris Mauritz wrote: > Redhat 5.2 installs the broken raidtools 0.50beta by default. I had to > rpm -e the package and then things worked normally afterwards. it's not broken, it's the beta version. If you upgrade to the alpha RAID patch, you need a new raidtools plus chang

raid1 problem

1999-01-09 Thread Zdenek Havelka
Hi, i have Debian 2.0 with glibc, kernel 2.0.36, mdutils 0.35-20. My computer is Intel 400MHz with 2 x 9GB IDE disc from seagate (both disc are identic manufacturer type). I need join /dev/hda3 + /dev/hdb3 into one /dev/md0 with raid1 personality. Partition size's (200 MB) and positions a

Re: Can't mkraid

1999-01-09 Thread Aaron D. Turner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Thanks Luca. Ok, next question.. what is this chunk-size? Is it measured in bytes or Kbytes? Basically I'm trying to figure out should it be 128/256/etc. (It's a web server with partitions sized from 192M -> 5G) Thanks! - -- Aaron Turner | Eith

Re: Can't mkraid

1999-01-09 Thread jmm
> I've created the appropriate partitions, set the partition ID to fd, and > created the appropriate /etc/raidtab file. Running: > > mkraid /dev/md0 give me: > > Handeling MD device /dev/md0 > analysing super block > invalid chunk size (0Kb) > mkraid: aborting including the raidtab would have

Re: Can't mkraid

1999-01-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
| I've created the appropriate partitions, set the partition ID to fd, and | created the appropriate /etc/raidtab file. Running: | invalid chunk size (0Kb) what does this "appropriate" raidtab file look like? you should have a line like this in it: chunk-size 256 -- Randomly Ge

Re: Newbie RAID problems

1999-01-09 Thread John P . Looney
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 12:06:34PM -0200, Carlos Carvalho mentioned: > John P . Looney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 January 1999 13:41: > >minbar# raidstart --configfile /etc/raid1.conf /dev/md01.conf /dev/md0 > > Hm... You should list the real partitions to raidstart I think... > > # raidst

RAID5 recovering from a disk failure

1999-01-09 Thread Sang-yong Suh
As described in the RAID5.HOWTO, I disconnected one of the SCSI disks. The raid runs Ok after the rebooting. My problem is that I can't recover the original full config. No matter how I change the order of the raidtab, the disconnected- and-later-reconnected disk is not included in the raid confi

Re: Can't mkraid

1999-01-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 11:32:34PM -0800, Aaron D. Turner wrote: > Handeling MD device /dev/md0 > analysing super block > invalid chunk size (0Kb) > mkraid: aborting > put a chunk-size line in your raidtab, eg. chunk-size 128 Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Netw

Software Raid5 configuration

1999-01-09 Thread rtsmith
I currently have 5 9GB scsi drives, I have four of them setup in a raid0 configuration currently. I would like to do away with this configuration, and setup a linux software raid. I would prefer to use a stable 2.0.X kernel but will use a 2.1.x kernel if neccessary. I am curious as to whet