Re: Limit for mdN devices

2000-07-03 Thread Piete Brooks
Is there a limit how many md devices I can create? Yes :-(( My /dev contains md0 to md15. I'd like to leave some gaps between each device to be able to insert another later (to steer the resync order). Do you know something I don't ? Are you saying that the re-sync order is based on the

the old swap on raid question

2000-07-03 Thread Michael
The risk to using swap on raid is that resync and swap operations can not go on at the same time so that if the swap raid set has been damaged and is resyncing, swap can not be allowed. There are several workaround scripts that detect the resync and allow it to finish before proceeding. Would

Limit for mdN devices

2000-07-03 Thread Sven Kirmess
Is there a limit how many md devices I can create? My /dev contains md0 to md15. I'd like to leave some gaps between each device to be able to insert another later (to steer the resync order). E.g.: /dev/md3 /boot /dev/md6 / . . . /dev/90/home Is that possible? I created

Moving form software to hardware raid

2000-07-03 Thread Michael Ghens
Just need to know how hard it is to move from software to hardware raid. Would I have to reformat the HD's? Any special considerations?

HPT366 problems

2000-07-03 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
I am setting up a BP6. It has 2xCeleron/400, 128MB ram. I have redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.16-3 running just fine, however it does not seeem to have the HTP366 ide driver in it. Too get a basic kernel I am installing the following sources: - linux-2.2.16 - ide-2.2.16-2630

Re: Patches for 2.2.16?

2000-07-03 Thread Hugh Bragg
I'm using Redhat's kernel-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm and kernel-sources-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm etc. without applying any patches. Apparently the patches for B1 have already been applied. I also downloaded linux-2.2.16.tar.gz from kernel.org and applied patch raid-2.2.16-A0 without any errors. It works fine

Re: 2.2.16 RAID patch

2000-07-03 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Alexander Javoronkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the latest 2.2 (production) RAID code against 2.2.16-final can be found at: http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.16-A0 let me know if you have any problems with it. patch -p0 raid-2.2.16-A0 what source kernel ? from

HPT366 RAID problems

2000-07-03 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
I have a working RAID setup un 2.2.16, on a BP6 but using the ATA33 controller. I decided to try the HPT366. My current kernel is the latest from RedHat (2.2.16-3). I built a new one from the following applied in order: - linux-2.2.16 - ide-2.2.16-2630

Re: Patches for 2.2.16?

2000-07-03 Thread Alexander Javoronkov
I wasn't sure if there was a 2.2.16 patch coming out soon, and I wasn't sure I wanted to install a "A0" patch ... Any thoughts? Nothing to worry about letter-by-alphabetnumber is just mingos versioning system for the patches he maintains. Has nothing to do with alpha or so. If he just

Re: 2.2.16 RAID patch

2000-07-03 Thread Alexander Javoronkov
Ingo Molnar wrote: the latest 2.2 (production) RAID code against 2.2.16-final can be found at: http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.16-A0 let me know if you have any problems with it. Ingo patch -p0 raid-2.2.16-A0 patching file `linux/init/main.c' Hunk #1

How to load a module at boot time

2000-07-03 Thread Rajesh Mishra
Hi all, Can anyone plz. tell how to load a module (.o) when kernel boots up. regards. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: How to load a module at boot time

2000-07-03 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Rajesh Mishra wrote: Hi all, Can anyone plz. tell how to load a module (.o) when kernel boots up. regards. a) if you wish to load a module by the kernel code, use request_module() API. b) if you wish to load a module (+ all the modules it depends on) use "modprobe

Keeping / on RAID0 in 2.3.99

2000-07-03 Thread Ilia Baldine
Hi all, Ihave a system with /boot on a normal partition and / being on md0 (raid0). It runs 2.2.14 or 2.2.16-RAID, however I need to switch to 2.3.99 for a variety of reasons. I've been trying to get it going to no avail for a couple of weeks now. Ihave a few questions I'd like to get answers