Re: [patch] raidtools: mailing list traffic reduction patches ;)

1999-10-03 Thread Tomas Fasth
Listen to this: I had a thought spawned in my mind because of Tom's nice little patch. I thought, "may be what we currently lack is a common waterhole on the net for Linux RAID issues?". Then I thought, "What about a linux-raid.org site?". Whois told me it was already a registered domain. A little

Re: [patch] raidtools: mailing list traffic reduction patches ;)

1999-10-03 Thread Marc Merlin
On dim, oct 03, 1999 at 01:28:14 -0700, Tom Livingston wrote: > The changes I made are: > * Changed mkraid & mkpv to check the version of the raid in the kernel > versus their version, and complain if they are newer than the kernel > version. This will help the folks who have a new raidtools vers

Re: [patch] raidtools: mailing list traffic reduction patches ;)

1999-10-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Tom Livingston wrote: > * Changed parser.c to assume a chunk-size of 4k for a raid0 array that > otherwise has no chunk-size... as the documentation suggests to folks that > no chunk-size param is needed for raid0... and since you can change raid0 > chunk-size after the raid

Re: [patch] raidtools: mailing list traffic reduction patches ;)

1999-10-03 Thread Luca Berra
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 01:28:14AM -0700, Tom Livingston wrote: > * Changed raidlib.c to give more information if it can't access md0. It > tells the user that either RAID isn't compiled into the kernel, or they need > to make the raid devices (make install_dev) > > does anyone have any oth

RE: [patch] raidtools: mailing list traffic reduction patches ;)

1999-10-03 Thread Tom Livingston
I said: > * Changed parser.c to assume a chunk-size of 4k for a raid0 array that > otherwise has no chunk-size... as the documentation suggests to folks that > no chunk-size param is needed for raid0... and since you can change raid0 > chunk-size after the raid has been made, they aren't stuck wi

[patch] raidtools: mailing list traffic reduction patches ;)

1999-10-03 Thread Tom Livingston
As many on this list have mentioned, there are a couple of problems that keep people posting for help with. I've made some quick patches to the raidtools-19990824-0.90 package in hopes of helping people out in the future. these patches are all superficial, in that they shouldn't affect how raid