Re: mkraid problems (v0.90/2.2.10/RedHat)

1999-07-09 Thread Felix Egli
My /etc/raidtab looks like this: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 3 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4 device /dev/sda2 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb2 raid-disk 1

RE: mkraid problems (v0.90/2.2.10/RedHat)

1999-07-09 Thread Bruno Prior
raid-level 1 with 3 disks? You have to use raid-level 5 (or 4). No you don't. You can have as many mirrors in a RAID-1 mirror set as you want. The setup described will protect against the simultaneous failure of two disks (i.e. the failure of a second disk before you are able to replace the

RE: mkraid problems (v0.90/2.2.10/RedHat)

1999-07-09 Thread Bruno Prior
I can't figure out why mkraid is aborting. No messages show up in the syslog, and I get what looks like a typical response from /proc/mdstat You are missing persistent-superblocks lines in your raidtab. I thought this shouldn't matter, as it should default to "persistent-superblocks 1", but

Re: mkraid problems (v0.90/2.2.10/RedHat)

1999-07-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 01:00:42PM -0700, Zack Hobson wrote: Hello RAID hackers, RedHat 6.0 w/ 2.2.10 kernel (compiled with RAID-1 support) raidtools 0.90 compiled from distributed source (ie, non-RedHat) raidtools 0.90 does not work with stock kernels either you use old raidtools or