RE: software raid chunk size

1998-12-26 Thread Randy Johnson
>From the Software-RAID-2.html " ... RAID-0 is much like RAID-linear, except that the component partitions are divided into stripes and then interleaved. Like RAID-linear, the result is a single larger virtual partition. RAID-1 is also referred to as "mirroring". Two (or more) partitions, al

RE: Raidtools-0.90

1998-12-19 Thread Randy Johnson
I fought with this for a full day before I got it to work. I was pleasantly surprised to findd that it 'just worked'. The required lines were already in rc.sysinit, even. Here are my specifics. (YMMV) RedHat 5.2, kernel level 2.0.36 raidtools-0.50beta10-2 RPM installed fdisk all disks, to provid

First RAID excursion... failure ?

1998-12-12 Thread Randy Johnson
> >When I run >mkraid /dev/md0 >The output I get is > >handling MD device /dev/md0 >analyzing super-block >disk 0: /dev/sda1, 8890352kB, raid superblock at 8890240kB >disk 1: /dev/sdb1, 8890352kB, raid superblock at 8890240kB >disk 2: /dev/sdc1, 8890352kB, raid superblock at 8890240kB >disk 3

First RAID excursion... failure ?

1998-12-12 Thread Randy Johnson
When I run mkraid /dev/md0 The output I get is handling MD device /dev/md0 analyzing super-block disk 0: /dev/sda1, 8890352kB, raid superblock at 8890240kB disk 1: /dev/sdb1, 8890352kB, raid superblock at 8890240kB disk 2: /dev/sdc1, 8890352kB, raid superblock at 8890240kB disk 3: /dev/sdd1,