Status of raid software?

1999-05-17 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I see that automatic reconstruction and all the other goodies are missing from the 2.2 kernels. Will they be included in a later version? Thanks -- Francesco Potortì (researcher) Voice:+39-050-593 203 (op. 211) Computer Networks GroupFax: +39-050-904052 CNUCE-C

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-17 Thread Dietmar Stein
Ok, thanks for the answer; I didn't get in this conflict, but I wondered, because it seemed that the raidtools are able to recognize the devices on which raid is built and check if there are multiple devices instead of only one. For testing and some other things it may be a good idea to set up ra

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-17 Thread Drew Norman
Thanks for the many responses, everyone. Just so you know, the reason I am creating a raid on a single disk is because I am testing the raidtools before I put it on some larger file servers. I have run into a new problem now. When I run raidstart I get an error. I first created /etc/raidtab

Re: Kernel oops

1999-05-17 Thread Shaun Sharples
Just a follow up: > no luck. I finally ran a ksymoops and it seems raid0_map is the culprit. in raid0.c, function raid0_map: block = *rsector >> 1; hash = conf->hash_table + block / conf->smallest->size; Looks like a simple hash function to translate which zone a block falls in

Help !! mkraid: aborted

1999-05-17 Thread Ziber
Hello, I am having trouble in installing Raid 5 (Using 3 8GB SCSI Drives) I am running 2.2.7 kernel and using raidtools-19990309-0.90 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [4 raid5] read_ahead not set md0 : inactive md1 : inactive md2 : inactive md3 : inactive # cat

RE: Aggghhh, raid1 when I want raid0

1999-05-17 Thread Bruno Prior
> root@excel linux]# more /etc/raidtab > raiddev /dev/md0 > # General parameters > raid-level 0 > nr-raid-disks 2 > chunk-size 1024 > Where is the persistent-superblock line? RAID-0 used to default to no pe

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-17 Thread dave
I have done a similar setup on 2.0.36 (same version of raidtools & patches, Redhat), three partitions on the same physical disk, in order to get the hang of 0.90 before putting it on my production server. I assume that's what you're (he's) doing. It works with a bunch of partitions on t

Re: Raid problems 2.2.9.

1999-05-17 Thread A James Lewis
Well, I didn't get a reject updating from 2.2.8 to 2.2.9, but looking, I have manually merged this file before Also, I didn't test the patches with 2.2.8, although 2.2.7 worked fine. On Sun, 16 May 1999, Paul Jakma wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 1999, A James Lewis wrote: > > Hi, > > I'