Re: to swap or not to swap . . .

2000-03-11 Thread Kelina
At 07:18 PM 3/11/00 +0100, Frank Joerdens wrote: >I found a discussion after all: > >http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO-2.html#ss2.4 > >Jakob says it's OK to swap on RAID. It *is* okay to swap on raid. It is *not* okay to swap on raid during the resyncing process.

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-03-01 Thread Kelina
Dunno what all the fuzz is about... But i'm running 2 raid1 arrays. One 16mb /dev/md0 for boot, and one 15gb /dev/md1 as root. If u go into rh6.1's graphic install u can choose if u want an ext2 or a raid device. Go ahead and try it out. Worked perfectly here, just 2day i janked out the primary

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-29 Thread Kelina
At 10:43 29-2-00 +0100, Thomas Rottler wrote: >On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:40:11PM -0600, George Liu wrote: > > This is a simple question but is difficult for me. I want to install a > > bootable-RAID 1 for 2 SCSI hard drive in the same controller. The kernel > > is 2.2.12 accompanying OS Redhat 6.

question about reconstruction

2000-02-27 Thread Kelina
Hey all, I'm running a new box with redhat6.1 and 2 5400rpm 15 gig harddisks. There's also a cd-rom drive on the same controller. Both the hd's are running as masters as a Raid-1 array, and cd cd-rom as primary slave. While trying to get my isdn to work (i managed that now btw) i managed to ge

Re: Possible memory leak + setup questions

2000-01-19 Thread Kelina
At 14:31 19-1-00 +0200, Janne Himanka wrote: >We have a dual PII with 8 4.3GB Cheetahs in two uw scsi channels. I >used to run it with kernel 2.2.3, a root disk, spare disk and a raid5 >partition composed of 6 disks. The raid5 partition worked otherwise >well, but within 6 months it lost its super

raid version incompatibilities

2000-01-04 Thread Kelina
Seems like our problems might all b over soon, check this url out http://lwn.net/daily/2.3-fixlist.html looks like they're gonna get raid 0.90 into the kernel, and then use it for 2.4 :) Surge At 01:35 4-1-00 +0100, you wrote: >>Assuming this is yet again the cause of problems, is anyone el

RE: Need help with RAID1

2000-01-03 Thread Kelina
> >Assuming this is yet again the cause of problems, is anyone else getting >sick of >stupid distros like Suse and Mandrake that include raidtools-0.90 without >including support in the kernel? I keep replying to these emails, all the users are thankful, but yeah, i think we're all getting kin

Re: resizing raid partitions

1999-12-29 Thread Kelina
What kind of raid level do you have? I *think* only raid lineair and raid 0 are supported for now, but i might be wrong. Surge At 06:00 29-12-99 +, Glenn McGrath wrote: >Im trying to resize (shrink) my raid partition, ive ran ext2resize and >shrank it from 35GB to 15GB, now im not sure how t

Re: Planning Raidtools on SuSE 6.3 with 2.2.13

1999-12-21 Thread Kelina
U can apply to a 2.2.13 kernel as well, no need to go with a 2.2.11 kernel. It will give u 2 rejects, but it's safe to ignore those. I'm using the same patches/tools with the 2.2.13 kernel as well. Surge At 09:33 21-12-99 -0200, Alexandre Hautequest wrote: >"Schackel, Fa. Integrata, ZRZ DA" wr

RE: New user troubles: (1) booting (2) size?

1999-11-17 Thread Kelina
> > As a comment: the docs should > > probably emphasize the importance of shutting down the RAID by hand if > > your system doesn't do it automatically, and RH 6.0 doesn't. > >Using new-style RAID, the kernel handles stopping the RAID at shutdown. You >should not be stopping the RAID yourself b

RE: Root RAID and unmounting /boot

1999-10-27 Thread Kelina
>In the context of booting from RAID, the disk geometry is only needed if the >boot-loader is trying to read from or write to a file on a RAID-1 array that >contains that partition. But in that case, the disk= and partition= lines >would >point to RAID arrays, not normal disks and partitions (se

Re: Root RAID and unmounting /boot

1999-10-26 Thread Kelina
At 09:07 26/10/99 -0600, Marcos Lopez wrote: >Egon Eckert wrote: > > > > > syslogd 378 root5w REG9,18548 192396 > > > /var/log/boot.log > > > klogd 389 root2r REG8,1 191102 12 > > > /boot/System.map-2.2.12-20 > > > > > > Is it safe to kill these?

Re: raid0 crash

1999-10-24 Thread Kelina
Loose my head next time... really... offcourse i meant with raid0 At 13:51 24/10/99 +0200, Kelina wrote: >Hi all, > >i just had a crash with software raid 1, the power of 1 of the 2 raid hd's >came loose during bootup. It resulted in me having to reboot. Then it checked >t

raid0 crash

1999-10-24 Thread Kelina
Hi all, i just had a crash with software raid 1, the power of 1 of the 2 raid hd's came loose during bootup. It resulted in me having to reboot. Then it checked the hd, found that an inode was not connected. Had to drop into a shell and run fcsk. Which put a single inode in the lost+found dir.

Re: kernel 2.2.13

1999-10-20 Thread Kelina
I tried it and i'm compiling now, there's 1 extra hunk fail i think, just entered it thru. For people using the ide patch, u'll need the new 2.2.13pre ide patch, cuz the old 2.2.12 ide patch failed on some points (IMHO) If anything goes wrong i'll keep u posted Surge At 09:22 20/10/99 -0500,

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
Enable what in the kernel? I did compile it with raid linear and raid0 support also with boot raid support, i checked that. At 19:38 23/09/99 +0200, you wrote: >Kelina wrote: > > > To answer ur 2nd question. No i haven't made a separate partition since > > accordin

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
Let me explain... i haven't actually ran raid yet, i want it to run raid0, but it's not working yet. And i'm trying to get it to work from my current setup. Which is just 2 ide hd's of which 1 has data and the 2nd was recently added... Both are formatted with diskdruid and have linux native parti

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
Tromp > >On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Kelina wrote: > > > I'm trying to run a raid0 setup as boot device with ide 2 disks on my > linux > > 2.2.12 kernel patched with the latest raidpatch and ide patch and > > compiled with raid linear and raid 0 support. > > >

Re: Raidtools

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
At 14:30 23/09/99 +0200, Kay Salzwedel wrote: >Hi folks, > >thanks for the replays to my earlier problem. Now I got kernel 2.2.11 >and the patch raid0145-19990824-2.2.11. It went well until I tried to >compile the latest raidtools (raidtools-0.41). During the configure it >say's that I have no Ra

running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
I'm trying to run a raid0 setup as boot device with ide 2 disks on my linux 2.2.12 kernel patched with the latest raidpatch and ide patch and compiled with raid linear and raid 0 support. What i get when booting is the following: Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel Panic: No init

Re: problem while compiling kernel

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
I just did the very same thing Kernel: 2.2.12 Patch: raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 added Raid0 and Linear support, Raid5 as module *BUT* i also used an ide patch ide.2.2.12.patch.gz which i can get from the people's dir under hedrick from any ftp.xx.kernel.org ftp. I patched the kernel with raidpat