Hi here is my account of setting up raid-1 over an existing system.
Setting up Raid-1 over an existing system
Brian Denheyer
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Much of this information can be found in both the "new" raid how-to
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
and the disk upgrade mini
Dear RAID users,
After struggling with the kernel(w/ debug option) and tons of
/var/log/messages lines, I have solved the "over 1T problem". It was
simply caused by the integer overflow.
in drivers/block/raid5.c
static inline unsigned long
raid5_compute_sector (int r_sector, unsigned int
Hi Gang,
I use the 2.2.11 kernel with the raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 patch.
It works fine as long as I don't let multiple user on the system.
Heavy load is not the problem, more the concurrent access. :(
The box crashed without any error message in any log file.
I compiled the 2.2.14 kernel
Many many thanks Brian,
This is just the sort of thing I needed to take the plunge into software
RAID. I've been following this mailing list for a while and was really
overwhelmed by the high technical level of the discussions. This was
frightening me a bit.
With your description I now have
Hi!
I compiled kernel 2.2.14 with raid support:
---
secu kernel: md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
secu kernel: linear personality registered
secu kernel: raid0 personality registered
secu kernel: raid1 personality registered
secu kernel: raid5 personality registered
---
You need the patch for the 2.2.14 kernel...
http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/
At , Jens Klaas wrote:
Hi Gang,
I use the 2.2.11 kernel with the raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 patch.
It works fine as long as I don't let multiple user on the system.
Heavy load is not the problem, more the concurrent
Hi!
I'm having trouble applying the patch for 2.2.14:
lars@arkham:/usr/src patch --verbose -p0 --dry-run out.txt
Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--
|--- linux/init/main.c.orig Thu Dec 16 15:22:53 1999
|+++
