Re: FAQ update

2000-08-07 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 08:47:47AM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: James Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 6:08 AM > > To: Linux Raid list (E-mail) > > Subject: Re: FAQ update > > >

Re: FAQ update

2000-08-05 Thread Luca Berra
ches/. Use the right patch for >your kernel, these patches haven't worked on other kernel revisions >yet. i'd add: dont use netscape to fetch patches from mingo's site, it hurts use lynx/wget/curl/lftp -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-03 Thread Luca Berra
You can find the separate patches that compose that > kernel in the ftp site as well. strange i was never able to run lvm on top ov raid with 2.4 the lvm tools just don't guess what an md device is :( L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread Luca Berra
`-I' This option tells `tar' to read or write archives through `bzip2'. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raid5 troubles

2000-07-21 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:17:18AM +0200, Martin Bene wrote: > "dangerous" tools. Bzw, has anyone checked what's different in this tools > package in comparison to the 19990824 release? yes it raises the max number of devices per superblock!!! -- Luca Berr

Re: Problems configuring RAID on RedHAt Linux 6.2

2000-07-18 Thread Luca Berra
1 34731R Rev: D > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 this is the other two in raid1 (/dev/sdb) please, stick to the redhat kernel (uhm get a newer one from updates.redhat.com) stick to hardware raid since you have itavailable and let software raid alone regards

Re: Raid1 and Journaling

2000-07-08 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 05:07:05PM -0500, Craig Servin wrote: > > Do either ext3 or Reiserfs work with a Raid1? not on 2.2 L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: MD_BOOT is _flawed_

2000-06-15 Thread Luca Berra
at supplied lilo is 80 characters, but this is a bug, patch boot.S or use lilo-21.4.3. regards, Luca P.S. this has nothing to do with the md_boot argument L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: mkraid & 2.4.0-test1-ac10 fails

2000-06-11 Thread Luca Berra
VLOCK(); 215 CHECK_SHLOCK(sh); 216 clear_bit(STRIPE_LOCKED, &sh->state); 217 sh->free_next = conf->free_sh_list; 218 conf->free_sh_list = sh; 219 atomic_inc(&conf->nr_free_sh); 220 } attached are ksymoops and .confi

Re: how should I set up swap?

2000-06-03 Thread Luca Berra
2.3, the buffer cache is largely sidelined in favour of the page > cache, and this is, in part, why the rebuild code is totally > different in 2.3.99pre8+ > now does anyone who looked at the 2.3/2.4 code know what exactly is the status for the latest kernels?? Regards Luca -- Luca Berra --

Re: drive succesion

2000-06-01 Thread Luca Berra
Cs.% > > > -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: how should I set up swap?

2000-06-01 Thread Luca Berra
oes this mean that swap would not only fail during reconstruction, but > also under degraded mode? again no Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: how should I set up swap?

2000-06-01 Thread Luca Berra
wap works > slightly differently on a file rather than on a device. There is a small > speed penalty, but much better resiliancy. NO, it does not, the problem is still there whether you swap on file or on partition, sorry L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-05-30 Thread Luca Berra
get the latest lilo from metalab, it understands raid L. On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:22:29AM -0700, Gavin Clark wrote: > Hi, I have a raid level 1 on 2 scsi drives and an IDE drive. > I'm trying to set MBR on all my drives so if the first one goes down the > system will still b

Re: RAID and new kernels, FYI

2000-05-06 Thread Luca Berra
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 03:19:49PM -0400, Edward Schernau wrote: > The RAID patches will NOT patch cleanly (nor will much else) > on a Redhat-supplied kernel. Make sure you start with a that maybe is beacuse the raid patch are already applied L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: Raid error messages

2000-04-28 Thread Luca Berra
ical disk(s) so it will resync them one at a time for performance reasons. L. P.S. how about changing the message, this is starting to sound much as the 'lp on fire' issue :) L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Autodetection with BSD disklabel

2000-04-17 Thread Luca Berra
current_minor++; > } > printk("\n"); > ------ -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Copying partition information

2000-04-04 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:34:32AM +0200, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > AFAIK there's no tool that can read one partition table and then > re-create it on another device in a clever way. You're right that sfdisk (it is part of util-linux) L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swapping onto RAID: Debian Style?

2000-04-02 Thread Luca Berra
pardon me? On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 02:03:36AM +0200, Thomas Rottler wrote: > Hi! > > I have an autodetecting RAID1 swap set. The kernel does so all the work for > me... > > Thomas > -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: offtopic - lost ext2fs

2000-03-30 Thread Luca Berra
aw, > even i got a backup copy of disk with dd. Before i go bloody, do you have > any advice to me or any experience to share with me ? > thanx in advance, try with something like fixdisktable by Gordon Chaffee, it should restore your partition, Regards, Luca -- Luca Berr

Re: ext2resize

2000-03-30 Thread Luca Berra
is a nice feature, you create a snapshot at one point in time then lvm will only write changes to the snapshot device, this enables you to make consistent backups. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Raid-Related System Locks

2000-03-28 Thread Luca Berra
/sec, offset 31. > (scsi0:0:14:0) Synchronous at 80.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 31. argh, put tape and cdrom on a different scsi bus besides that disks should be higer priority devices than othrt stuff L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Swapping onto RAID: Good idea?

2000-03-25 Thread Luca Berra
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 11:31:12AM +0100, Martin Bene wrote: > At 09:52 25.03.00, Mike Bilow wrote: > > >3. Create a swap file on /dev/md0 (which has been combined from /dev/hda1 > >and /dev/hdc1). > > Never tried this, sorry. > has the same problem as swapping

Re: upgrade from 2.2.12-20 to 2.2.14 breaks stuff

2000-03-17 Thread Luca Berra
e modules you need to build an initrd. also check the partition type. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: to swap or not to swap . . .(hardware RAID)?

2000-03-12 Thread Luca Berra
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 02:46:36PM -, Matthew Clark wrote: > Is swapping on Hardware RAID safer than software RAID? > > Matthew Clark. yes, hardware raid should appear as a normal disk to linux L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: can a md device be partitioned?

2000-03-12 Thread Luca Berra
lume manager) over an md device Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: to swap or not to swap . . .

2000-03-11 Thread Luca Berra
hysical > memory is exhausted (I've never tried it, or found myself in the > position, or tried setting up a test bed to provoke such a situation) process will get killed randomly -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: big big problem

2000-03-06 Thread Luca Berra
ing ro failed-disk one of hdg1 or hdh1 (hdg1 seems to be the most out-of date, so i'd chose that one). then mkraid (pray, cross fingers, whatever) undo modification of raidtab raidhotadd the disk you marked as failed if this does not work you may need to restore from tape. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: mkraid aborting without any useful information

2000-02-08 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:13:32PM +, Carl L. Roy wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 6.1 with mkraid version 0.90.0. The > Linux kernel that I am running is version 2.2.13-7mdk. When I attempt download the kernel update from the mandrake ftp site L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: Argh, more problems with SCSI and RAID

2000-02-02 Thread Luca Berra
s getting this error from my dds changer and it was filling my logs during nightly backups. i did not notice any ill effect for this. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raid 1 and kernel upgrade 2.2.12->2.2.14

2000-01-27 Thread Luca Berra
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:54:36AM +0100, Email wrote: > hi > im running 2.2.14 with raidpatch raid0145-1999-0824-2.2.11 and raidtools > 0.90 > it works fine for me this is quite interesting, since it shouldn't work :)))) L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Co

Re: RAID Swapping

2000-01-22 Thread Luca Berra
finished resync. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: ReiserFS and RAID1

2000-01-17 Thread Luca Berra
t use reiserfs for / 2) use an initrd that wait for resync to be complete (slowww) 3) i believe that resync may be safe if the fs is mounted readonly. but i wouldn't swear on it. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Latest ver of raid patches?

2000-01-06 Thread Luca Berra
ngo/raid-2.2.14-B1 L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Swap on Raid -- revisited

2000-01-05 Thread Luca Berra
} .* resync=" /proc/mdstat;do sleep 1;done && swapon $1 (needs to be smarter than that, to support swapon -a and swap on file) regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Don't try this at home!

2000-01-02 Thread Luca Berra
o software raid for a serious setup. ok, your only chance is to recreate the disk array. make a conf file specifying as failed-disk the drive you cut the power to, then mkraid, data should be there. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: swapping on raid

2000-01-02 Thread Luca Berra
why the !"£$ every time someone mentions mirrored swap on linux, there has to be a =)(/& that mentions that linux stripes swap on multiple partitions? L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: "new style" raid and devfs?

1999-12-30 Thread Luca Berra
jects/sgilinux11/ Luca. P.S. if you think about answering that they only support kernel 2.2.10 look harder :))) P.P.S. DON'T use devfsd with those patches L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: mkraid problem

1999-12-30 Thread Luca Berra
a distribution and don't look at the updates you deserve what you get L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Swapping in the HOWTO

1999-12-26 Thread Luca Berra
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 08:32:13PM +0100, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > According to Mr. Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], swapping on RAID is not it is not just according to me, it is Stephen Tweedie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who spotted the bug. search the recent list archives for the previous discuss

Re: SV: SV: SV: never kernel than 2.2.11

1999-12-26 Thread Luca Berra
orruppted. > > Is this a fact even when using a swapfile? That's what I do. No swap yes, sorry. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: SV: SV: never kernel than 2.2.11

1999-12-26 Thread Luca Berra
or unclean shutdown swap gets corruppted. enjoy L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Setting up Raid 1

1999-12-22 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 12:11:30AM -0500, Wilson G. Hein wrote: > Do I need to apply the patch to the rpm'd RH source kernel 2.2.12-20? How NO -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Raid 0 on Redhat 6.1

1999-12-21 Thread Luca Berra
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:12:25PM +0100, charly wrote: > Hello! > > I am using Redhat 6.1 with Kernel 2.2.13. either use the kernel provided with redhat or fetch the last patches from a kernel.org mirror they are for 2.2.11 but apply almost cleanly. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL

Re: disks lose label at reboot, killing md device with "bad magic". Help!

1999-12-20 Thread Luca Berra
labels are at the beginning of the disk ext2fs knows about that and won't screw yer disklabel, that is why you won't notice the problem with non-raid setup. raid does'nt and will happyly screw it. (* yes, i believe this is a raid bug *) L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: RAID 0 and RH 6.1

1999-12-14 Thread Luca Berra
installed with an initrd try disabling that option and create an initrd should work. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: HELP-- identical disks but fdisk sees them different

1999-12-10 Thread Luca Berra
zeroing the partition table and rebooting L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Step by step instructions for raid1 on RedHat

1999-12-10 Thread Luca Berra
d -print0 |cpio -p0duma L. P.S. don't swap on raid for now -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Best way to set up swap for high availability?

1999-12-06 Thread Luca Berra
g swapping on a partition we are rebuilding. (ie swapoff;raidhotadd;swapon) this seems better to me that not swapping on raid. how about a flag (do_not_autorebuild) in the raid SB??? (ok, ok i know this has a lot of drawbacks, so please don't insult me) Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra

Re: Linux Raid5 and NFS, how stable an reliable?

1999-12-06 Thread Luca Berra
older > (2.0.x kernel) Linux systems are using autofs to mount it. you should probably check hjlu's nfs patches to make it work also there are som patches that support NFSv3 that is a great boon. stable, nfs ?!? arghhhh L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: scsi channels (Was: ide hardware raid)

1999-12-02 Thread Luca Berra
ad balancing. btw, i doubt any of these card will work with linux :( L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: errors on boot

1999-11-17 Thread Luca Berra
sucker? > try raidhotremove /dev/mdx /dev/sdy raidhotadd /dev/mdx /dev/sdy L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: errors on boot

1999-11-16 Thread Luca Berra
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 03:14:42PM -0500, Michel Pelletier wrote: > It looks to me like the [2/1] means only one of my two 'low level' > partitions below /dev/md2 is working. I don't know what the [U_] means, it means the second partiotion is gone U=ok _=fubar --

networked raid

1999-11-14 Thread Luca Berra
- Linux HA Web Site: http://linux-ha.org/ Linux HA HOWTO: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/linux-ha/High-Availability-HOWTO.html -- -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raidstop --all doesn't do its job

1999-11-09 Thread Luca Berra
ing all active raid devices in the shutdown/reboot/poweroff syscalls. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

RAID and MANDRAKE

1999-11-03 Thread Luca Berra
-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm 2a2f3001e798473f10537033b4ea2bb4 kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm 35b0450d35d42ba77b5066f1d90f9825 kernel-smp-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm ecdc2001887bccb5ba1543f9f4f41bad kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media

Re: raid on 2.2.9

1999-11-03 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 02:54:05PM -0500, Paramasivam Kartik wrote: > Do we need to patch Linux 2.2.9 > before we can use the raidtools (like mkraid) > to install raid. yes -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Patch for kernel 2.2.13?

1999-11-03 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 04:58:34PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know when the raid 0.90 patch for kernel 2.2.13 should be > released? > I've looked at kernel.org but latest there is 2.2.11. > look in /pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.13ac -- Luca Berra --

Re: Problems moving from debian to RH with RAID

1999-11-03 Thread Luca Berra
ype to 0xfd for the raid disks if you have the raid1 code compiled as a module (eg. redhat default kernel) do mkinitrd --with raid1 /boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img 2.2.5-15 and add the line initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img to your lilo.conf Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communi

Re: Root RAID and unmounting /boot

1999-11-03 Thread Luca Berra
safe to kill these? > > Better add > > cd / > bah, klogd locks /boot because it has an open file there not due to its cwd. anyway there is no need to umount /boot L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: PROs and CONs of booting RAID?

1999-11-02 Thread Luca Berra
7;s what I do. well, my job deals with that 0.01-% :)))) Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Help for raid

1999-10-30 Thread Luca Berra
help me ? no, unless you post the content of your raidtab and any eventual messages in your syslog. L. P.S. the first that suggests that he patches his kernel will win a "mongolino d'oro" (which is a special italian prize for very smart people) -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raid5 under linux

1999-10-29 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:45:06PM +0200, michel wrote: >My version of linux is : Linux Version 2.2.9-27mdk > >My version of mkraid is mkraid version 0.90.0 this is becoming a FAQ see my answer to a previous poster -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communicati

Re: Please Help - SCSI RAID device very slow

1999-10-28 Thread Luca Berra
at all. I know of one case where it is possible to bypass the megaraid for at lease one channel, it is the embedded netraid(remarketed megaraid) on hp netservers LH3, you have to change a setting in the bios. All other cards i tested (netraid 1, netraid3, netraid3si) don't allow this option. Re

Re: raid problem

1999-10-27 Thread Luca Berra
0145-19990824-2.2.11.gz and fix the rejects by hand regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: mkraid aborts, no info?

1999-10-27 Thread Luca Berra
get either a redhat kernel or a linux-2.2.13ac1 mandrake was unfortunate in that they included the raidtools package but did not patch the kernel to support raid. {to see if you have a patched kernel look for the "autodetecting raid" message during bootup} -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROT

Re: Please Help - SCSI RAID device very slow

1999-10-27 Thread Luca Berra
an use the symbios instead of 2nd megaraid channel, but you will loose hw raid. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raid not auto detecting

1999-10-27 Thread Luca Berra
you using?? Have you patched it with the latest > RAID patches? > > I'm running a stock rh 6.0 install. Where can i look to autodetect > and > start my > raid arrays? > > -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Recovering from a lost disk

1999-10-26 Thread Luca Berra
oesn't check the return code of Was it rewitten recently? last time i checked it had mor buffer overruns tahn lines of code :((( L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: To whoever maintains this list

1999-10-22 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:12:08AM -0500, Stephen Waters wrote: > thanks... i had it set up to work on sender and subject when it should > have been to or cc and subject... bad idea :))) from my .procmailrc: :0 w: * ^Sender:.*owner-linux-raid linux/raid -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: raid howto

1999-10-22 Thread Luca Berra
t; Could the list maintainer give an oppinion on this ? i asked dor the same thing some months ago: !answer L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: To whoever maintains this list

1999-10-22 Thread Luca Berra
to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] I hate it when I make a simple problem >complicated! really? :) please use the sender header to sort majordomo mailing lists Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Problems Creating a Raid 1 Device

1999-10-16 Thread Luca Berra
hes from a kernel.org mirror L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Re: raid problem

1999-10-15 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 10:33:58AM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > where can i find the latest patchs ? you cannot. this is the problem raid has not been ported to 2.3 kernels, sorry Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raid problem

1999-10-15 Thread Luca Berra
nd of messages) that not having the latest raid patches in th 2.3 kernel, is causing more problems that having these, could this be a suggestion to Linus -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: your mail

1999-10-04 Thread Luca Berra
e if you want > to do root raid... no you don't just create an initrd with mkinitrd --with raid1 (or whatever) L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: [patch] raidtools: mailing list traffic reduction patches ;)

1999-10-03 Thread Luca Berra
tall_dev from the raidtools source directory\n"); } else { puts("RAID was not compiled into the kernel\n"); } } to the /dev/md0 checks L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Prob with RAID1 - RedHat 6.0 - Kernel 2.2.12

1999-10-03 Thread Luca Berra
od messages in there, especially if luser's running redhat) I woke in a bad mood today, L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Adaptec Raidport

1999-09-27 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:13:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Will the Adaptec Raidport 3 ARO-11030U2 work with Linux? > NO -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raid sous linux

1999-09-27 Thread Luca Berra
tsuck for mail is bad enough, just don't send 'em as HTML -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Root Raid Questions....

1999-09-27 Thread Luca Berra
initrd you should use either the first solution or add --with raid1 to mkinitrd Ciao L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: IBM Netfinity Hardware Raid?

1999-09-26 Thread Luca Berra
e IBM ServeRAID controller */ /* */ /* Written By: Keith Mitchell, IBM Corporation */ /* */ /* Copyright (C) 1999 IBM Corporation

Re: Lilo configuration, device 0900 not known

1999-09-19 Thread Luca Berra
; check the block major and just "trusting" or are there reasons this > would be non-trivial? cause lilo calls getgeometry() (or whatever is that called, i dun have sources at hand) on the device and the md driver does not have getgeometry() L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] C

Re: RPM'd RAID kernel and raidtools?

1999-09-17 Thread Luca Berra
know what it should look like. > try `grep autorun_array /boot/System.map' L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: mkraid aborted please help

1999-08-29 Thread Luca Berra
at are not in the stock kernel get the patches from ftp.xx.kernel.org and rebuild. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting Root RAID 1 Directly _Is_ Possible

1999-08-23 Thread Luca Berra
i spent a lot of time trying to patch lilo to do this very thing and i was stranded since md does not suppoort getgeometry(), i never tought of specifying geometry in the lilo.conf L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Autostart failing.

1999-08-23 Thread Luca Berra
yes, you are in danger, i suggest you shrink your filesystem. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

To mailing-list administrator

1999-08-20 Thread Luca Berra
hello, what about adding the line http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ at the end of every mail that comes from the list? Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Problem seting up RAID-1

1999-08-17 Thread Luca Berra
md0 b 9 0 mknod /dev/md1 b 9 1 . L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raid and ac-patch?

1999-08-13 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 03:58:46PM +0200, Andreas Gietl wrote: > Has anyone got an idea how to combine the 2.2.10-ac9 patch and the > raid0145-19990724-2.2.10 patch? try 2.2.10-ac12, if you don't worry about ISDN :( this already contains raid support L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAI

Re: Re: Re: Problem with md - md.h

1999-08-02 Thread Luca Berra
s. i dont believe the new raid code works with old raidtools do you see anything in syslog? what about using strace mdadd ... if syslog does not work -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Adding software with RedHat installation system?

1999-07-31 Thread Luca Berra
esystems. you could try splitting the mirror, ie raidhotremove all mirror copies than you can install on the /dev/sdx or hdx partition (whithout letting it do any mkfs) after thet go and resync your mirror : Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raid-19990724-2.2.10 , Can this be applied to ...

1999-07-30 Thread Luca Berra
emember, the fact that patch does not produce rejects, does not mean thet the resulting code is correct) L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Re: Re: Problem with md

1999-07-29 Thread Luca Berra
e a superblock, changing this would require destroying the array spare disk are not an option for linear and raid0 chunk size also does not apply to linear. Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Re: Problem with md

1999-07-29 Thread Luca Berra
) and use the raidxxx commands. Regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Fighting RAID0...

1999-07-28 Thread Luca Berra
es???). Thank you. I do not use raid 0, i consider it suicidal/i have no use for it except as in part of raid0+1 (don't flame me, i won'tchange idea) but if i were in you i'd take a look at the raid0run tool from the last raidtool-0.90 regards, Luca -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: Problems building raidtools 0.90

1999-07-27 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 07:54:49PM +0200, Thomas Willert wrote: > /usr/include/linux/errno.h:4: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory # cd /usr/src/linux # make symlinks L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: Unofficial patch for kernel-2.2.10

1999-07-13 Thread Luca Berra
2.x, x>6 problems have been > resolved. > > -- > Osma Ahvenlampi > -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: mkraid problems (v0.90/2.2.10/RedHat)

1999-07-09 Thread Luca Berra
gest downgrading to the last 'stable' redhat kernel. Luca P.S. (for Felix) you can build an N-way mirror (n>2) for added redundancy, also please quote only relevant parts of a message when replying. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

Re: raid 0.90 on 2.0.37 ?

1999-07-07 Thread Luca Berra
it does not happen in every case so this has been very hard to trace. but the problem exists and has been reported by different people in different conditions. L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Media & Services S.r.l.

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