RE: Build in degraded mode?

1999-10-27 Thread Tom Livingston
or, if I'm > > not mistaken. > > mkraid says "unrecognized option "failed-disk" detected error line 13... You need a newer version of the raidtools package and the kernel patch. You can get the latest at ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha this is the on

RE: Build in degraded mode?

1999-10-26 Thread Mark Spencer
> I believe you're looking to set one of your three disks > as "failed-disk" as opposed to "raid-disk" in your > /etc/raidtab file. The device you give it is not even > actually accessed or written to; you could put /foo/bar > and it will still build degraded without and error, if I'm > not mis

Build in degraded mode?

1999-10-26 Thread Mark Spencer
I've had a 9-gig SCSI Seagate drive in my machine for a while, and it's mostly full. I've got two new drives and would like to build a RAID-5 with all three drives. Trouble is I don't have anywhere to backup what I've got, so what I'd like to do is build my RAID 5 in degraded mode, and copy all

Build in degraded mode

1999-04-23 Thread Martin Bene
Hi James, >> Far as I can tell, this should change - at least I got an email from ingo >> asking for my patch adapted to the latest release of raidtools for >> inclusion into the driver. I sent the patch yesterday, so let's see what >> happens :-) > Great, are you releaseing those patches again