On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, John Finlay wrote:
> Encouraged by this result, I foolishly went ahead and remade a linear
Not blatantly foolish at all - fs corruption has been a tricky problem
with 2.2.
> /dev/md1 using the two 36GB drives (except for 2GB in /dev/hda1 for /) -
> 32GB in /dev/hda4 and 34G
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> This could be cute. But, how to do it? Is it even possible?
>
> > You forget your option of having a small bootable partition
> > on each of the
> > drives composing the raid array, which is how it's done. Or
> > used to be,
> > before the lilo.
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Admin Mailing Lists wrote:
> The thing I TOTALLY don't get is if the first drive dies, how can
> you boot the 2nd drive (mirror) when you're still losing the small
> bootable partition (as it's still part of drive 1). Of course you can put
> this bootable partition on a seper
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Fernandez, Richard wrote:
> How do you set the partition type to 0xfd?
> I don't see any reference to "fd" when I list the Hex codes (fdisk v2.9n)
Just 't' and 'fd'. Please note newer fdisks (in util-linux) already have
this type listed.
k
I have a proto-production Root RAID1 array set up, and it's mostly working
fine. I did have quite some trouble getting the root md set up and
booting, but now that it's done, it's stable.
I usually do a set of tests to know how well my R1 is working - 'hot'
pulling drives data cables - perhaps n
