Thanks for the very clear explanations below.
I have an additional questions similar in nature.
I have a RedHat 5.0 environment which has been patched with an older version
of raid/raidtools.
The system is configured for raid-1.
It saved my ass recently when a hard drive went south.
Now I'm ready to upgrade to RedHat 5.2.
The instructions are clear regarding the kernel and software config,
Does anything need to happen with the RAID-1 file systems currently in
place.
Do I need to back and reformat the file system,
or can I just go through the motions of install, compile, software config
and startup.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Brodbelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jack Gavigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: RAID1 on / for RH 5.2
>Jack Gavigan wrote:
>>
>Get rid of the raidtools that shipped with RedHat. Then remove all
reference to
>RAID in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt. Then get hold of
the
>raidtools 0.90 source, and compile that. Kernel - 2.0.38 doesn't exist :-).
I
>suggest using a clean 2.0.36 source tree, and patching that for RAID
support.
>Don't use the kernel source provided with RH 5.2, it's a 2.0.36 pre
release,
>with lots of weird patches added. Compile, and enable RAID-autostart. Then,
>use fdisk to change the partition id's of the partitions making up your
RAID
>devices to 0xfd. After this, the kernel will auto-start and auto-stop your
RAID
>devices at boot and shutdown. You will not need any support in scripts at
all.
>
>HTH
>
>Mike.
>
