At 06:27 30.09.99 -0700, Tom Livingston wrote:
>I have been using the failed disk feature since Martin Bene posted it as a
>patch earlier this year. At that point, the style posted for including this
>was replacing the raid-disk line with failed disk, not having both. I
>suspect having both is w
Bruno Prior wrote:
> > device /dev/sda6
> > raid-disk 1
> > failed-disk 1
>
> A lot of people trying to use the failed-disk method, are using
> these last two lines in their raidtab. I thought the
> failed-disk line was instead of
> I'm running 2.2.12 and raidtools/patches from 19990824.
> I'm trying to create a raid-1 partition with the "failed-disk" feature
> to transfer existing data from one of the partitions.
>
> raiddev /dev/md6
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare
> I'm running 2.2.12
Oops, sorry, turns out I was still running an old kernel!
Working great now.