Building arrays in degraded mode?

1999-05-04 Thread Steve Costaras
I haven't tried this in a while so I might be doing something wrong here. I'm trying to build a couple arrays in degraded mode (RAID 1 & RAID 5). This is on a system running kernel 2.2.6 & raid0145-19990421-2.2.6 patch. A sample RAID-1 config that I'm playing with is below. I though that we co

raid 5 under 2.2.7

1999-05-04 Thread Michael Rothwell
mkraid does this: [root@penguin rothwell]# mkraid /dev/md0 handling MD device /dev/md0 analyzing super-block disk 0: /dev/sda2, 8369865kB, raid superblock at 8369792kB /dev/sda2 appears to contain an ext2 filesystem -- use -f to override mkraid: aborted [root@penguin rothwell]# mkraid --really

help with recurring kswapd deaths (zombie)?

1999-05-04 Thread Brad Burdick
we have a server: dual intel PII 400Mhz 512MB RAM BusLogic BT-958 scsi running: kernel 2.2.5 w/ raid0145-19990309 patch. debian 2.1r2 dump 0.4b4-13 the problem: we are having problems with dump causing a panic with kswapd. this is a repeatable condition. with a raid0 device configur

raid0145-19990421-2.2.6 against 2.2.7

1999-05-04 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, Since 2.2.6 had some networking problems that played havoc with a new server I'm trying to put up I decided to try to put 2.2.7 on it. The 4/21 RAID patches are almost clean--some offsets, and only one rejection. That rejection concerns me, though. For stock 2.2.7, in linux/include/

Re: mkraid: aborted

1999-05-04 Thread dstein2203
Hi Some suggestions/questions: - Did you patch the kernel? - If yes, try mkraid --really-force /dev/mdX - Are you using the right raidtools (0.90)? Greetings, Dietmar >- Ursprüngliche Nachricht - >Absender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Betreff: mkraid: aborted >Empfänger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Datu