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

1999-11-17 Thread Michael Marion
Kelina wrote: > Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't the standard rh6.0 (and 6.1 kernel for > that matter) use old style raid? If you mean the version that uses the older tools (i.e. mdadd, mdrun, etc) then no. I have 6.0 on a box running a RAID-5 array and one of the last messages during a shu

Re: Monitoring?

1999-11-12 Thread Michael Marion
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" wrote: > But that is not the ONLY underscore; > Please note the name "read_ahead". So grep for an underscore with a [ or a U in front of it: grep '[\[U]_' /proc/mdstat -- Mike Marion - Unix SysAdmin/Engineer, Qualcomm Inc. There's even a parody for people opposed to huntin

Re: error message about RAID 0

1999-11-08 Thread Michael Marion
Pavel Chytil wrote: > kernel: EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended > kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free Have you followed the suggestion and run an e2fsck on the device before mounting? -- Mike Marion - Unix SysAdmin/En

Re: Possible RAID bug

1999-01-16 Thread Michael Marion
Michael Marion wrote: Arg. I meant to ask first: Is this bug known to be present in the raid code that comes with Redhat 6.0 (2.2.12-20 kernel) with raidtools-0.90? Or is it only in the newer raid patches? > Any idea if there's a way to test for this bug? Considering I just bumped m

Re: Possible RAID bug

1999-01-16 Thread Michael Marion
Martin Weinberg wrote: > I plopped in an older 2940UW, rebuilt the raid device and the > problem was gone. A fix for the U2W was proposed by Justin > Gibbs, and I have a patch from Tor Egge. Doug Ledford posted a > more recent patch in the kernel group (search for FIFOEMP in > dejanews). Any i

Re: superblock Q/clarification

1999-01-02 Thread Michael Marion
David Cooley wrote: > It's probably something to do with the fact that I'm on a Sparc Ultra 2 > machine running Linux. > Didn't think Linux saw the drives differently between platforms, but I > guess it does. I'm guessing the drives were orginally used under Solaris/SunOS? i.e. they had a Sun d