Rather than polling the /proc filesystem to see if the system goes into
degraded mode, what are your thoughts on having the kernel exec a command
when it goes degraded?
-Laz.
does the redhat 6.1 installation allow for root mounted raid? It would be
nice to just be able to insert a couple boot disks, and install straight
from nfs/ftp or cdrom, and not have to tweak anything manually.
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Drenning Bruce wrote:
> to quote from the press release, 6.1 has
A while back I was also looking into ways to umount the root partition
(raid5 in my case). I was poking around with the kernel to see how
real_root_dev etc works, and the way initrd (which I was using) moved the
real root device around.. I figured a syscall of some sort could be called
at shutdown
I just wanted to thank Ingo for working on the raid development. I've had
a raid5 system running for some time now (a huge uptime since 2.1.114 was
released), it was originally brought online somewhere around 2.1.6x or so
approximately. I was hesitant to do any further upgrades on it, as this
code
Personally I dont mind waiting a little longer, if it means that the final
bugs will be ironed out and especially if it is marked as 'stable' and
goes into the kernel tree. I take it we're pretty close to that?
I still have a production box running a 2.1.114 kernel, and the raid5
patches at that
In the original docs or howtos, mention is made of being able to partition
your /dev/sdx device first, or just using it as a raw device.. which is
what I've done. Now that detection based on the partition type is
available though, its a little unfortunate for those of us with raw
devices.
Isnt th
My raid5 disks arent partitioned, I've used them directly (i.e. /dev/sda,
/dev/sdb, ..., instead of /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, ...) -- problem with this
is that they cant be autoraidstarted from the kernel.
Is it too much to ask for a commandline option to specify the devices for
the md0? I could raid
This was brought up on the linux-kernel mailing list recently, I believe
molnar ingo made this change, the latter representation is indeed correct.
(apply the patch)
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Stephen Costaras wrote:
>
> I tried patching the 2.2.1 kernel w/ the latest patch on ftp.us.kernel.org
> (19
How about booting off the network, from another system already deemed
reliable. Most network cards just need a bootrom to be plugged in, I think
some of the intel motherboards with integrated eepro are boot-capable.
I suppose you could have a network of raid5 machines all set up this way,
and pre
