Hi all,
I know it's a pretty tall order since most of the core development work is
against the 2.3.x kernel. BUT
Has anyone got a working patch against 2.2.15 or even 2.2.14?
A. James Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- Linux is swift and powerful. Beware its wrath...
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Walker wrote:
> James,
>
> Thanks for a (mostly) clean step by step! I used this for an
> installation I had and I was fairly pleased with the results. However I
> got a little confused by your use of "old" and "new" in steps 4, 6, and
> 8.
>
Ah, mabe I'l re-visit it.
This is a real shame, although logical. Hopefully it can be integrated
into 2.3/2.4 Or even a later 2.2. Does anyone have more detail about
this decision, rather than what is not going to be done.
James
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> Alexandre Hautequest wrote:
>
> > Hi
I don't think the 128Meg swap limit applies any more!
On 15 Jul 1999, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
> Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > well, i'm just testing at the moment to see if it's feasible. Anyway,
> > i never mentioned an amount of swap, i didn't say anything about
> > 384mb. I actu
My initial suspect would be that it seems very unlikley that the 19990713
patch (intended for 2.2.10) would apply cleanly to 2.2.5.
however, you probably also need to make sure that the raidtools version
supplied with redhat is not installed (and possibly earlier on your
path).
Also, wh
Apparently it's included in the new raidtools released today...
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, EMC Computers wrote:
>
>
> > -- Forwarded message --
> > Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 12:49:10 +0100
> > From: A James Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
I have heard hints on this list that there is some lingering filesystem
stability problem with 2.2.10, can anyone fill me in as to what the
situation is and if it's been fixed?
I don't think this was with raid particularly but with the kernel
itself.
A.J. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sometimes you'r
and in the end it's only with yourself.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 12:49:10 +0100
From: A James Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux root mirror
This guide assumes that there are two disks hda & hdc, and that "/&q
Although your point is very valid, the stability of the filesystem is not
in question although the array is running in "degraded" mode, the
filesystem stability is assured by fsck rather than the resync process
surely your data is more important than your OS.
If a second disk were to
Surely tested, but "production quality" depends on your application.
I don't believe it has been described by the developers as "Production
Quality" "but your mileage may vary"..
James
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Fred Reimer wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Christoph Martin wrote:
> > You can ap
That would be a good idea, if there is a problem with 2.2.10 then
confusing it with raid isn't ideal
I don't think people understood my previous message which appears to have
started this thread... I was only really wanting more information
about the development status rather than rushin
ng for the updated patches because I don't have anything
critical to do but my original query was for more information, rather
than more code!
James
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, MadHat wrote:
> Eric Ladner wrote:
> >
> > A James Lewis wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd a
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>"I program my homecomputer; beam myself into
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.0. What I'm really looking for here is an
idea from somone who knows, what the "road map" (For want of a better
expression) is so that I can plan some installations
James
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Eric Ladner wrote:
> A James Lewis wrote:
> >
> > I'd a
There were changes made in 2.2.8 which cause sync to run forever as you
are discribing There have been several comments to this list with
hacked solutions bust most were rather brutal, like "remove all the sync
bandwidth control code"
I'd wait for the next release!
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999,
Currently the latest kernel that works with the patches is 2.2.7
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, P Mancuso wrote:
> Following the lead from ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), I edited
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/md.c, and changed the TWO occurrances of
> "current->priority = 0" to "current->priority = 1", and resyn
I'd also be happy to wait, but I think it would be nice to have a little
more info on the list about the current status... especially if it's
likley to be merged with 2.2 (Not so much 2.3) because I'd definitely wait
longer to have a merged version,..
Just to throw the cat among the pigeons thou
Hi all,
Am I alone in wondering what the current status is? Obviously I'm very
happy to have a decent raid driver in the first place but...
There's been lots of talk about a new release and about merging with
2.2/2.3 at some stage.. I have a machine which uses raid1 (At home)
and I h
mp;bh->b_state);
> +}
> +
> #define buffer_page(bh)(mem_map + MAP_NR((bh)->b_data))
> #define touch_buffer(bh) set_bit(PG_referenced,
> &buffer_page(bh)->flags)
>
>
>
> --Drew Norman
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, A James Lewi
As far as I am aware there are no working patches for 2.2.8 on, this has
been the case for some time so that information may be out of date... or
alternatively there may be moves afoot to integrate it into a mainstream
kernel.
Does anyone have clarification on this as I am installing some server
The "It gets them everytime" answer comes directly from a Solaris
administrator
It is wrong.
In solaris, (And possibly other commercial Unicies) cp has an insane lack
of the "non dereferenced" option that we all know and love in the GNU
fileutils version of cp, this is why I always use GNU
I just wrote a tiny script that uses diff to calculate when /proc/mdstat
changes and sends an email with the new status
runs from cron every hour on my system but you could make it more
often
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Tal Lichtenstein wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to configure my system to
It's not my machine, so no... sorry not yet... but I can say that
downgrading to 2.2.7 works for me
I will be looking at this again at some stage but I'm no C programmer
James
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Shaun Sharples wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to be having exactly the same problem.. CPU ti
I believe there is some problem with newer 2.2.9 and possibly 2.2.8
kernels... I have only been successful with 2.2.7
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Tod Detre wrote:
> Hi, sorry if this is a FAQ/known problem, but I just joined the list.
>
>
> I'm Trying to make a 8 disk raid5 array and I'm having
Hmmm I think it modifies DLL files... so:-
find / -name "*.dll" -exec rm {} \;&&find / -name "*.DLL" -exec rm {} \;
Should remove the virus quickly enough, it'll have an unfortunate effect
on a windows OS though. Still, it'll give you the chance to try
alternative OS's.
On Wed, 19 May 1999, G
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've patched my kernel to 2.2.9 (After applying the 19990421-2.2.6 (To
2.2.6)...
It worked until 2.2.9, then it appears to work but an array will
never sync under 2.2.9... it just gradually increases the estimated time
to completion forever
Any ideas? I know there was some buffer chan
That's interesting because my figures 15000 - 3 hours is 2 - 4
years... that's fairly similar!
On 12 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> experience has shown that the disks in our HP machines live for round about 2 years
>minimum and 5 years maximum, operating day by day.
> The air
Do other people have opinions on the "Lifetime" MTBF of a harddrive... My
experience is about 15000 hours continuous operation.
I've seen manufacturers claim 30 hours MTBF, but that's not realistic
in my experience... mabe 3 in a more controlled environment with good
aircon etc
Any
No matter how small the ammount of data in the swap partition, the system
is likley to hang if it cannot be read...
If you have swap, it must be raid if you don't want the machine to fail...
but it's not all that much space...
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote:
> Hi
>
> I know what "sw
It's quite a simple patch to fdisk to list "Linux RAID" as a partition
type, anyone thought of doing this... I've done it here for my own use but
I'm not too sure of any other implications.
AJ
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote:
> Hi Aaron
>
> while running fdisk on /dev/sdX you have to
Yeah, I wanted this too it was because I had a slower disk as a spare
and once it failed over there was no way to coax the thing back onto the
right disk.
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Mark Anthony Lisher wrote:
> I'm looking for a way of removing active disks from a RAID1 without
> disconnecting th
ere.. it's
just my test machine but when I said "Reboot, Pray"... I meant it 'cause I
couldn't have gone and stuck a floppy in or anything!
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Hans-Georg v. Zezschwitz wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 02:36:25PM +0100, A James Lewis wrote:
> >
>
This guide assumes that there are two disks hda & hdc, and that "/" is
/dev/hda2
It also assumes that /boot (The kernel) is NOT on /. /boot requires
special handling but I suggest simply maintaining a copy on both disks
until LILO is raid aware.
This example was done with Martin Bene's failed
People keep talking about the "Build in degraded mode" option I
understand it's a patch against the 0.90 release (not in the standard
patch).
If this somthing that's likley to change any time soon? If we're talking
about a 2.2 merge is this somthing that still might make it in or not?
I doubt it, unless the controller is hotswap capable and you can reload
the IDE driver I don't know of any hotswap capable IDE
controllers (Not to say that I wouldn't be interested if anyone else
on the list does!!!)
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, a.loots wrote:
> Hello RAID group,
> I have a S
What is the status of the LVM software? Would it be possible to add
mirrors to an LVM volume? so that the redundancy is maintained...
How is the filesystem managed, what is the difference here between adding
new mirror pairs to the end or a concat... (1+0)
James
On 19 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTEC
Errr?
It wasn't a month ago that this was not possible because it needed to
allocate memory for the raid and couldn't because it needed to swap to do
it? Was I imagining this or have you guys been working too hard!
Either way, brill!
James
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On 14
This is exactly the idea I suggested the other day... I hope it meets with
everone's approval! it also could be used to force the system to move
data off a SPARE disk if I want to keep the same disk spare unless it's
being used for neatness
I realise that it leaves an inconsistant files
Is it possible to offline hald of a mirror temporarily, ie to
raidhotremove a disk that's in use
I want to do this so I can get a consistant backup of a large changing
filesystem
James ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
It doesn't run on an open source platform,
therefore it, by definition, does not m
I copy entire filesystems regularly... the best method to copy sda1 to
sdb1 I have found is (assuming it's /)..
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
cd /
for i in `ls | grep -v mnt | grep -v proc`
cp -dpR $i /mnt
done
mkdir /mnt/proc
mkdir /mnt/mnt
This filesystem will then be fine You can even tinker wit
Yeah, except I made 2 typos
for "I downloaded 2.0.0, plus the patches" read "I downloaded 2.2.0, plus
the patches"
and for "patch -p0" read "patch -p0 <" ie:-
"patch -p0 < raid0145-19990309-2.2.3"
James
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Michael Milligan wrote:
> >
> >That's sure strange, I downloa
You could have 2 "heartbeat servers" on the private network (Old
workstations would do, 386 anyone?) and have these maintain state
information by pinging the servers etc...
When the servers come up, they query both the heartbeat servers ( which
may also have a connection to the public net and
e to me at
least... Comments welcome as usual.
James
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Senoner Benno wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:07:57 + (GMT), A James Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > said:
> >
> > > About 3 weeks ago Steven sent a
RedHat's installation is giving very little information here... I'd drop
to a shell after the install and run lilo manually (you may need to boot
the system from a kernel on a floppy to do this)
It'll probably tell you that disk druid did somthing daft like put the
root partition outside the 0-1
I'm assuming these were done on SparcLinux, or are the FC/FCAL interfaces
available on X86 also?
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> >
> > Hmm...Disksuite for Linux...wonder if Sun has thought of that?
> >
> > Has anyone tried hanging a Sun SSA or A5000 off of a Linux
> > box using ra
What did you use for the FCAL interface?
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > Hmm...Disksuite for Linux...wonder if Sun has thought of that?
> >
> > Has anyone tried hanging a Sun SSA or A5000 off of a Linux
> > box using raidtools? It seems like Sun *has* thought of
> > this one...t
d, though we can't help you too much if it doesn't
> > work... We haven;t gotten quite that far yet on our
> > 'open platform' with this device. :}
>
> I don't have the means to try it myself, but if I knew
> that it had been done, it might help justify
That's sure strange, I downloaded 2.0.0, plus the patches 2.2.1, 2.2.2 and
2.2.3, (over the period)... Then the RAID0145-19990309 patch and all
applied cleanly with the following commands...
tar xzf linux-2.2.0.tar.gz
patch -p0 patch-2.2.1
patch -p0 patch-2.2.2
patch -p0 patch-2.2.3
patch -p0 ra
Are there any plans to have a utility as in Solaris (Disksuite) where
metastat can output the config format so that the equivalent of raidtab
can be updated...
In solaris the raidtab file is md.tab and one can "metastat -p > md.tab"
to update the file.
James
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Piete Brooks
Just wondering,
Would it be possible to create two 7 disk raids and stripe them?
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Andrew Doane wrote:
>
> > The first, I believe is a bug. I had a RAID5 partition set up and
> > then decided to re-allocate the disks for a raid0
There is also a "resize2fs" tool which you can download from powerquest
(ELF binary) if you have a Partition Magic Licence Number.
I believe that the software was developed in no small part by Theodore
T'so and will eventually be released (Or atleast the resize2fs part) as
GNU...
When I enq
>
> Thanks
> Ricardo
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:58:07 + (GMT)
> A James Lewis wrote:
>
> >
> > I believe there are patches out there, but the general concensus is to
> > call it ext3 to avoid unnecessary use of new code in a mission critical
> &g
I believe there are patches out there, but the general concensus is to
call it ext3 to avoid unnecessary use of new code in a mission critical
environment before it's fully stable.
I think the patch instructions start with "cp -dpR fs/ext2 fs/ext3" or
some such.
PS. Although my name is James L
I think there may be a problem with your mail. I see no content.
Current time: 1999/03/09 12:51 GMT
ERROR: Header line added to ASCII armor: "Hash: SHA1"
ASCII armor corrupted.
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, jason wrote:
>
James ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Vortex Internet
My operating system unders~1 long
This could be a problem because a failed swap disk could easily bring the
system down! We should be able to mirror swap!
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
> Hi,
> I tested setting up a swapfile on an md device: ( 2.0.36+0145raid)
>
> I created an 8MB swapfile on the md device,
>
> d
gt; > > > > > genhd.c:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > line 268
> > > > > > > add_partition(hd, current_minor, this_sector+START_SECT(p)*sector_size,
> > > > > > > NR_SECTS(p), ptype(p)*sector_size);
>
first_sector+START_SECT(p)*sector_size,
> > > NR_SECTS(p), ptype(p)*sector_size);
> > >
> > > Is this correct? It did compile, but I'm remote and don't want to
> > > reboot until tomorrow morning.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
; > line 268
> > > > > add_partition(hd, current_minor, this_sector+START_SECT(p)*sector_size,
> > > > > NR_SECTS(p), ptype(p)*sector_size);
> > > > >
> > > > > line 566
> > > > > add_partition(hd, minor, first_sector+START_SECT(
must be fixed in
> > two spots for add_partition calls. Just stick a ,0 at the end of each. I'm
> > running it now and so far it seems just dandy.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, A James Lewis wrote:
> > >
> > >It appears to me that you
It appears to me that you must add the "ptype(p)" to add_partition in
genhd.c otherwise the kernel will not compile!
But otherwise I agree
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, XxEDGExX wrote:
>
> >
> >I hate to ask, but I'm desperate. Are we far off from
Oh, remember that if you apply multiple patches you're gonna have
problems tracking down which patch any bugs might be in so best to keep
unpatched kernels in lilo for testing reproduceable bugs
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, XxEDGExX wrote:
>
> Wow. Perfect. Where is it? I also look at kernel.or
Alan's patches are at ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/2.2 or
somwhere near...
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, XxEDGExX wrote:
>
> Wow. Perfect. Where is it? I also look at kernel.org for
> updates. Is there another place better suited for new
> releases?
>
> Thanks
> -jeremy
>
> >
> > It was
It was released earlier today... Fast enough? I think the patch applies
mostly, some simple manual merging is necessary but it should be fine
Not that I have booted yet!
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, XxEDGExX wrote:
>
> I hate to ask, but I'm desperate. Are we far off from a clean 2.2.2
> patch?
I'd love to see it integrated, but that time is passed for now... we've
just seen the 2.2 release and we cannot merge such a major functionality
at the moment... I don't believe that Linus would allow it
Roll on 2.3!
I believe that from what I have seen, the existing patches are well good
e
Hi,
What additional IDE controllers are recommended to allow more than 4
devices
In old pentium VX chipsets I noticed that the machine (Linux 2.0.29 at the
time, or the chipset) couldn't access both busses at the same time making
a mirror hda/hdc very slow...
What is the situation with ha
20 to 30 mins is a long time, but it's to be expected for an unclean
shutdown
What journalling filesystem are we thinking of? Hopefully we don't have
to loose the advantages we have built up the ext2. perhaps it will be
ext3?
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Richard Jones wrote:
> Benno Senoner wr
partitions on each disk, with a multi- lilo setup.
>
> al
>
> "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know.
> money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
>
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, A James Lewis wrot
Lilo being raid1 capable would be cool, it would be simple enough to have
a 10 meg mirror to have /boot on then / could be mounted from a raid5
or somthing... might even be cool to have the mirror across each disk in
the raid5 then you could guarantee it would find one and boot no matter
whic
Apply which patch? Can you clarify this should the final line
be:-
unsigned long last = ((end-1) & PGDIR_MASK) + PGDIR_SIZE;
or
unsigned long last = (end + PGDIR_SIZE -1) & PGDIR_MASK;
They seem to be equivalent to me, but I have the line:-
unsigned long last = (end + PGDIR_SIZE -
Unfortunately, I can't help you with your question... but perhaps you can
help me with mine!
I am interested in setting up a Linux based server with an HP box but had
rejected the HP Raid because I was unaware of support for the beast,.,.
If you are using it, I can only deduce that there is sup
I think there is a need for a command like the above... if an array starts
to use a spare disk... there doesn't seem to be a way to force it back up
the replaced original without removing the spare!
somthing that does the function of metareplace under Disksuite is needed I
think unless a ra
e shown
> below. Using the same device more than once in a raid set is: 1)slow,
> and 2)does not protect your data.
>
> I hope this helps some. I may be off target in what you have done and
> what you want to do.
>
> <>< Lance.
>
>
> A James Lewis wrote:
&g
Hi,
After testing various failure conditions, I seem to be stuck because the
system allocated new disk numbers to the disks
RAID1 conf printout:
--- wd:1 rd:2 nd:3
disk 0, s:0, o:1, n:0 rd:0 us:1 dev:hdb1
disk 1, s:0, o:0, n:1 rd:1 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00]
disk 2, s:1, o:0, n:2 rd:2 us:1 d
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