I tried out Mandrake 7.0 (oxygen) beta looks like they have a patched
kernel with 0.9x raidtools and a groovy gui for adding devices call diskdrake
took me 5 minutes to setup 3 18GB disks for linear..
Linux has come a long way indeed!
Stephen Waters wrote:
are you using 0.9x raid?
i am, and
I am seing the samproblems with lineaar mode and RedHat6.1/Mandrake 6.1
going to try Mandrake 7.0-beta
Wojciech Ku¶ wrote:
re-hi! (this is a small addition to my prev. mail)
I forgot... /etc/raidtab - isn't it useful to know? ;)
Here it goes:
raiddev /dev/md8
raid-level
are you using 0.9x raid?
i am, and my raidtab manpage says the value is in KB.
also, the HOWTO says it's in KB:
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO-4.html#ss4.8
-s
Andy Poling wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, [ISO-8859-2] Wojciech Ku¶ wrote:
> > raiddev /dev/md8
>
> Unfortunately, mkraid refuses to prepare the devices for me:
[snip]
> and the uname: Linux server 2.2.13 #2 SMP Tue Dec 28 21:52:25 CET 1999
> i686 unknown (Yes, it really has such an original hostname ;-> )
> Distro: Mandrake 6.1, raidtools-0.90.
You need to patch the kernel with the raid-patc
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, [ISO-8859-2] Wojciech Ku¶ wrote:
> raiddev /dev/md8
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
> chunk-size 4
Do you really want 4-byte chunks? Maybe you meant to use "4k" instead?
According to the man pag
