earlier discussions, the 5.1 code will, fix the "dirty
> shutdown bug".
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from criticism voiced here earlier about the Escalade firmware. I
> have once tried to contact 3Ware through a web form in their site
> but no answer yet.
>
> The criticism mentioned above is from a message posted 2000-06-07
> by Martin
> Bene. Here's the relevant quote:
As f
tools definitely support it. no need to go for the
"dangerous" tools. Bzw, has anyone checked what's different in this tools
package in comparison to the 19990824 release?
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our system infected?
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testing whith raid1 (failed drive, reconstruction) also work OK.
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ter
trying to patch; you definitely need to either get a raid-patched md.c from
2.2.15 or use one of the other solutions mentioned on the list.
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orrect the way
it is? would a patch be accepted? should the right behaviour be different?)
out of Ingo, so I'm bothering you instead :-)
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one with highest count" would give better results.
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> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: Christian Robottom Reis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 19. Mai 2000 21:31
> An: Martin Bene
> Cc: Ard van Breemen; Thomas King; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Re: AW: ICP vortex vs. mylex
>
>
> On Fri, 19
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raid 0/1 hardware
raid controllers, linux is supported (driver source availabel). See their
website at www.3ware.com
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;d keep sdb as sdb and just put in a replacement for sda; however,
you'll have to boot off a floppy if you do it this way.
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nd will result in file system errors sooner or
later. The only case where it might work is if you use some additional
utility to shrink the ext2 filesystem to make room for the superblock - I
don't have personal experience with this approach though.
Bye, Martin
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0
label = Linux
read-only
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check that the partition you put under boot= is the one containing the
/boot filesystem, NOT your / filesystem. Works nicely for me, lilo cycles
over the physical disks and makes each of them bootable.
Bye, Martin
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rry right now :). I won't
>even need to invoke my patience, I would have sat on hold longer then that
>to get an answer about any proprietary software ;)
>
>Best,
>Sean
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on raid devices until resync has finished.
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wap.
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ort, a driver for redhat 6.1 will be released within the next 30 days.
Original mail from support:
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Subject: RE: Fasttrak
DDEVS
do
while grep $raiddev /proc/mdstat | grep -q "resync="
do
echo "`date`: $raiddev resyncing" >> /var/log/raidswap-status
sleep 20
done
/sbin/swapon /dev/$raiddev
done
exit 0
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.raid1.gz
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el anyway.
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device and add the old
disk to the raid device after verifying all works ok. see jakobs raid-howto
for details, should be described there.
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/www.icon.fi/~mak/tiotest/ - thanks to Mika!
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3.43 right now.
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u've compiled raid5
as a module and the module isn't on your initrd (redhat 6.x, right?).
You'll have to make a new initrd image taht includes the raid modules(s).
(see mkinitrd command.)
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linear).
So yes, for upgrading your old raid5 arrays you can and should use
persistent-superblock 1
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should do backup / mkraid with
persistent superblock / restore to make best use of 0.90 capabilities.
translucent: Anyone who can explain what this one does is welcome to - I've
never used it.
Bye, Martin
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as included on 13.7.99 for kernel 2.2.10 and
2.0.37.
Bye, Martin
Bye, Martin
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at the kernel can
autostart the raid arrays - much more stable.
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e that swapping on raid1+5 is OK.
Bye, Martin.
PS: off list as of tomorrow, in Australia till christmas.
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0.90 raid patches or download and apply the patch apropriate
for your kernel.
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ter a disk failure and you may have to restart the system
after a disk failure.
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on another filesystem will cause trouble.
Also, take care that the raid device you specify on the boot= line is the
device for the /boot filesystem, NOT the root filesystem (in case they're
different).
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esystem on the raid device using mke2fs
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ably has an initrd image which proviedes the scsi
module.
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herefore the
kernel doesn't see your disks when checking for partitions to include in
autostart.
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or higher. Newer raid kernel patches can be obtained from:
ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha/
where XX is a country code, like US
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.12 or 2.2.13-pre kernels.
Bye, Martin
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At 06:27 30.09.99 -0700, Tom Livingston wrote:
>I have been using the failed disk feature since Martin Bene posted it as a
>patch earlier this year. At that point, the style posted for including this
>was replacing the raid-disk line with failed disk, not having both. I
>suspect ha
.
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e disks.
lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.hda
lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.hdc
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raid device - your original
partition shouldn't be used anywhere now. in case of problems, you can
still revert to your original config.
7) raidhotadd the original disk to theraid array.
Hope this helps,
Martin
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eaning: the
only on your disks that gets changed is the superblock; if it doesn't work
you can change settings and try again.
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/kernel/process.c
arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
include/asm-i386/system.h
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/sched.c
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urrent
chunk, round line 3470++ in md.c)
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lly knows what he's doing to figure out how to really fix
the problem. :-)
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t; dated
23.4.99 on the list - patch for latest tools&kernel is included.
You can look it up on the web at
http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-raid/lr_9904_04/msg00030.html
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sterday, so let's see what
happens :-)
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At 19:19 17.04.99 +0100, you wrote:
>yes it can.
>
>Martin Bene had a patch for this. It adds a an option to mark a disk
>in /etc/raidtab as failed, so that you can start the array in
>degraded state.
Careful - My patch was designed for the redundant raid types 1/4/5, I don'
ir
problem.
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you've changed the partition type for sda2 to fd - the disk won't
be recogniced by the kernel if you obmit this and you get exactly the
symptoms described.
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one of them.
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to
>load the personalities. Can this be done ?
Far as I know - no.
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a mkraid --debug. This will dump your
current raid setup to syslog.
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new raid device, copy your stuff
over, restart from the raid device and raidhotadd you current root device
to get a fully functional mirror.
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n of the raid array
will start and the spare disk will replace the "failed" one after
reconstruction finishes. -> You end up with a healthy raid array configured
just like you wanted it.
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lent fix in his raid patch as well.
So: live with the reject, changing this line is no longer necessary with 2.2.1
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- admittedly, this may not be typical.
* additional single point of failure. If the floppy drive or controller
breaks, you're down till you get a replacement.
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/sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.sda
echo ""
echo "Running lilo for disk 1"
/sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.sdb
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boot - while lilo can tell the kernel to use
/dev/md0 as root it can't read the kernel image or boot bessages off a raid
device.
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sc->minor);
+ }
+
break;
default:
@@ -1170,7 +1197,9 @@
}
}
- if (!start_recovery && !(sb->state & (1 << MD_SB_CLEAN))) {
+ if ((conf->raid_disks > 1) && !start_recovery &&
e-disk mirror (easy) and expand this to a normal mirror
when hotadding a second disk (not quite so easy, but getting closer)
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xisting one -
and I haven't yet figured out how to do this. Add a failed "phantom" raid
disk before the spare one so the activate_spare stuff can work aus usual?
Any ideas?
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PS: Don't forget: You'll need a small non-raid partition to hold your
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Will add the new disk to the mirror(s) and initialize the new disk so you
end up with a consistant mirror again. Syschronisation runs in the
background, again see /proc/mdstat for current status.
Hope this helps,
Martin
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At 17:44 19.12.98 -0500, you wrote:
>Martin Bene wrote:
>> I'm not too happy with this double-lilo setup I'm currently using - is
>> there any way to make the boot process more transparent while still
>> retaining the ability to start from either drive?
>
>Y
el0 and lilo -r /kernel1 to have both disks bootable
in case the other sould die;
I'm not too happy with this double-lilo setup I'm currently using - is
there any way to make the boot process more transparent while still
retaining the ability to start from either
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