Day 7 and still no satisfaction

1999-04-01 Thread Carl Hilinski
I am quickly reaching the end of the rope. I wanted to learn about RAID in linux (having used it much in NT), so I tried to patch Redhat 2.0.36 with the 0145 raid patch, which simply returned "X not set" messages in defconfig.rej. Since I could find no info on what to do to solve that, I

Re: latest raidtools

1999-04-01 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi guys, Looks like the latest raid0145 doesn't patch cleanly against 2.2.5-ac3 !! :-( I grabbed the patch and got 3 rejections... and the kernel won't make now... here are the rejections: find . -name *.rej -print ./fs/buffer.c.rej ./include/linux/genhd.h.rej ./drivers/block/genhd.c.rej Any

RAID 0 Linear and df. Block count questions

1999-04-01 Thread Lawrence Hare
Can anyone clear this up for me please? I have two older SCSI disks, a Wren and an Imprimis so they are good drives and should last awhile yet. I have set up Raid 0 Linear and all seems to work as planned, except I cannot make head nor tail of the block counts... Each disk is configured with a si

Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

1999-04-01 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:28:25 +0100, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Not so fast there :-) > In the stress tests, I've encountered almost silent > filesystem corruption. The filesystem reports errors > as attached below, but the file operations continue > without error, corrupting

Re: partition type to autodetect raid

1999-04-01 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:27:26 -0500 (EST), Laszlo Vecsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Isnt there room in the raid header for an additional flag to mark the > 'partition' type? I realize this might require a 'mkraid --upgrade' to be > run, but at least the 'partitions' could then be detected an

Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

1999-04-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... does these bugs exists for raid5?? under linux-2.2.5 ?? am running 2.2.4 w/ raid0 ( trivial stuff ).. have fun alvin > Richard Jones wrote: > > "D. Lance Robinson" wrote: > >=20 > > I have also experienced file system corruption with 2.2.4. The proble= > m most > > likely lies in th

Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

1999-04-01 Thread Richard Jones
"D. Lance Robinson" wrote: > > I have also experienced file system corruption with 2.2.4. The problem most > likely lies in the /fs/buffer.c file which the raid patch had a conflict > with. I'm also fairly sure now that the problem is with 2.2.4. I'm currently taking the machine back to 2.2.3 an