Chuck Clayton wrote:
On the subject of creating and booting from a Raid1
device, I have read the
nano-howto that came RaidTools version .090. I still have some
questions
with regard to the setting up and need for the /root partitions.
Can anyone
give me some additional information on this
As a side note, does anyone know why the hell RedHat put alpha patches in
their production release? Out of curiosity, did they ask anyone on this
The alpha patches are better - more reliable , less buggy and have more
features than
the standard raid included with the stock linux kernel in
Francesco Potorti` wrote:
I remember having seen on this list a
message saying that making a swap
file on a filesystem residing over a raid device was not possible/reliable
(because of a race condition in the kernel?).
Unfortunately, my own archive of the list only contains a pass-by reference
What is needed is a "raidhotremove --DOIT!!" to allow you to remove an active
disk ... (people have said this should be possible in the kernel -- but
tricky. Sounds pretty simple to me, but I'm not an expert ...)
now that everything lives in the kernel, i dont see how that would be
Unless Red Hat have applied special patches to their distribution
kernel, RH 6.0 does not support RAID autostart. You should install the
latest RAID patches from
They have and it does.
Brian Murphy
Hi again,
I have done a small test with a raid-1 swap partition. I have filled up
memory so that the system swaps
to the raid swap partition with a little test program and the system
worked, top shows 800M of swap used
and still going. Does this tell me that it will always work? Or are there
Helge Hafting wrote:
Why do you want to swap onto raid?
Creating ordinary swap partitions with equal priority on
several drives will achieve the same speedup as far as I know,
as the kernel will spread swapping across all the swap partitions.
This achieves the same speedup as raid-0
Hi folks,
we are trying to set up a mirrored (raid-1) system for reliability
but it is not possible according
to the latest HOWTO to swap onto a raid volume. Is there any change on
this?
Has anyone set up a system like this with/without swap configured and
what is your experience?
We have
Chris Chabot wrote:
Help! im lost, finaly have found the new howto on ftp.fi.kernel.org after days
of dispair and old documentation... tried the new tools ... nada ... tried
kernel patches ... busted kernel 2.2.5 ...
My problem is this ... i created the /etc/raidtools (modified example
