RE: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-07 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Carlos Carvalho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 10:57 AM > To: Andrea Arcangeli > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM > > >In 2.2.x that's not possible but for _ve

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-07 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Carlos Carvalho wrote: >So can't this be fixed? Everything can be fixed, the fact is that I'm not sure if it worth, we'd better spend efforts in making 2.4.x more stable than overbackporting new stuff to 2.2.x... The fix precisely to allow raid5 on raid0 could be pretty local

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-07 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Andrea Arcangeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 7 August 2000 16:50: >On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > >>Does this patch allow raid5 over raid0? That'd be really wonderful... > >Despite it's useful nor not, which 2.?.x? The latest if possible, but the one your patch applies to if I

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-07 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Carlos Carvalho wrote: >Does this patch allow raid5 over raid0? That'd be really wonderful... Despite it's useful nor not, which 2.?.x? In 2.2.x that's not possible but for _very_ silly reasons. Raid0 in general is a no brainer and fully transparent layer that we can place

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-06 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Chris Mauritz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 August 2000 22:17: >> Does this patch allow raid5 over raid0? That'd be really wonderful... > >Huh? What do you mean by that? Raid 5 is essentially Raid 0 with the >parity bits spread out across all the drives. Running one on top of >the other

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-06 Thread Chris Mauritz
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 6 21:45:04 2000 > > Andrea Arcangeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 3 August 2000 19:55: > >>On Aug 2, 7:12pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >>} Subject: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM > >> > >>> This patch cleanups the new raid code so that we have a chance that

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-06 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Andrea Arcangeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 3 August 2000 19:55: >>On Aug 2, 7:12pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >>} Subject: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM >> >>> This patch cleanups the new raid code so that we have a chance that LVM on >>> top of RAID will keep working. It's untested at the

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-03 Thread Luca Berra
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:55:18PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, G.W. Wettstein wrote: > Grab 2.2.15aa1 or 2.2.17pre11aa2, they have completly reliable LVM (I also > switch between it and 2.4.x stock without changing anything). It can be > used for production. You can find t

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-03 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, G.W. Wettstein wrote: >On Aug 2, 7:12pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >} Subject: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM > >> This patch cleanups the new raid code so that we have a chance that LVM on >> top of RAID will keep working. It's untested at the moment. >> >> >ftp://ftp.*

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-03 Thread G.W. Wettstein
On Aug 2, 7:12pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: } Subject: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM > This patch cleanups the new raid code so that we have a chance that LVM on > top of RAID will keep working. It's untested at the moment. > > >ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patche