Re: RAID questions

2000-08-07 Thread Danilo Godec
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Adam McKenna wrote: > 2) If I do, will it still broken unless I apply the "2.2.16combo" patch? > 3) If it will, then how do I resolve the problem with the md.c hunk failing > with "2.2.16combo"? If I remember correctly, 2.2.16combo was there to make it possible to use

RE: RAID questions

2000-08-07 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Adam McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 9:27 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RAID questions > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 08:07:58PM -0700, Gregory

Re: RAID questions

2000-08-07 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 08:07:58PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > I'm a little verbose, but this should answer most of your questions, > although sometimes in a slightly annoyed tone. Don't take it personally. There's a difference between being annoyed and being immature. You seem to have answ

RE: RAID questions

2000-08-07 Thread Gregory Leblanc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RAID questions > > Hello, > > I consider the current state of affairs with Software-RAID to > be unbelievable. It's not as bad as you think. :-) > 1) The current RAID-Howto (on www.linux.org) does not > indicate

Re: RAID questions

2000-08-07 Thread Andrew Pochinsky
I found it sufficient to apply http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.16-A0 to the stock 2.2.16 kernel. Works fine with rh6.2 raid tools. Hope it helps, --andrew So, I have the following questions. 1) Do I need to apply the RAID patch to 2.2.16 or not? 2) If I do, w

RAID questions

2000-08-07 Thread Adam McKenna
Hello, I consider the current state of affairs with Software-RAID to be unbelievable. 1) The current RAID-Howto (on www.linux.org) does not indicate the correct location of RAID patches. I had to go searching all over the web to find the 2.2.16 RAID patch. 2) The current 2.2.16 errat

RE: Boot Linear/RAID-1 [was: Root Raid Questions....]

1999-09-27 Thread Stanley, Jeremy
self into the future." --Kraftwerk, 1981 > -- > From: David Cooley[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 12:21 PM > To: Stanley, Jeremy; Linux-Raid > Subject: Re: Boot Linear/RAID-1 [was: Root Raid Questions] >

Re: Boot Linear/RAID-1 [was: Root Raid Questions....]

1999-09-27 Thread David Cooley
At 12:00 PM 9/27/1999 -0400, Stanley, Jeremy wrote: >If we don't already have a HOWTO section on this issue, we probably >should add one. We've seen more and more questions on this topic of >late... Just my half-nybble. > >On a similar note, wouldn't it be possible to boot from RAID-1/5 using a

RE: Boot Linear/RAID-1 [was: Root Raid Questions....]

1999-09-27 Thread Stanley, Jeremy
> -- > From: Stanley, Jeremy > Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 12:00 PM > To: Linux-Raid > Subject: Boot Linear/RAID-1 [was: Root Raid Questions] > [clip] > On a similar note, wouldn't it be possible to boot from RAID-1/5 using >

Boot Linear/RAID-1 [was: Root Raid Questions....]

1999-09-27 Thread Stanley, Jeremy
If we don't already have a HOWTO section on this issue, we probably should add one. We've seen more and more questions on this topic of late... Just my half-nybble. On a similar note, wouldn't it be possible to boot from RAID-1/5 using a similar method if the chunk size was greater than the ker

Re: Root Raid Questions....

1999-09-27 Thread Bo Kersey
> > You don't have to put lilo on the boot partitions. It can go on the MBR. Lilo > needs to point to files on a non-raided partition, not necessarily be on that > partition itself. Sorry, on the MBR is what I meant... > > The following /etc/lilo.conf should work for /dev/sda (substituting app

Re: Root Raid Questions....

1999-09-27 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:29:51AM -0400, Luca Pescatore wrote: > Sep 27 15:26:36 test kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k md- > personality-3, errno = 2 either compile raid1 in the kernel or add alias md-personality-3 raid1 to /etc/conf.modules if you are using a redhat initrd you

RE: Root Raid Questions....

1999-09-27 Thread Luca Pescatore
Hi, this is my /var/log/messages it doesn't start MD0, Why ? At this moment 'm using kernel 2.2.13ac12 with last raidtools, what's wrong ? Best Regards, Luca Pescatore Sep 27 15:26:36 test kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, l un 0 Sep 27 15:26:36 test kernel: SCSI dev

RE: Root Raid Questions....

1999-09-27 Thread Bruno Prior
MAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bo Kersey > Sent: 24 September 1999 23:19 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Root Raid Questions > > > Hi, > I've successfully gotten my box up with root software raid1 and I > have created > md's for

Root Raid Questions....

1999-09-24 Thread Bo Kersey
Hi, I've successfully gotten my box up with root software raid1 and I have created md's for all but the boot partition... I had hell getting lilo to put its magic in the right place and ended up using brute force and awkwardness to get it on both boot partitions... I did the raid1 using the 's

RE: Raid Questions

1999-09-17 Thread David Cooley
At 04:43 PM 9/17/1999 +0100, you wrote: > > I'm confused. You're using 2 devices of apparently equal size (which I > assume > > means they're the same kind of device). However, you have one defined > as an > > IDE disk and one defined as a SCSI disk in your raidtab file. Could > > that be the

RE: Raid Questions

1999-09-17 Thread Bruno Prior
runo Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Mauritz > Sent: 17 September 1999 01:27 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Raid Questions &

Re: Raid Questions

1999-09-16 Thread Chris Mauritz
I'm confused. You're using 2 devices of apparently equal size (which I assume means they're the same kind of device). However, you have one defined as an IDE disk and one defined as a SCSI disk in your raidtab file. Could that be the problem? > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 16 19:38:15 1999 >

Re: Raid Questions

1999-09-16 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello -- there is a lot of confusing and incorrect howto's, etc. out there. > I was using raid0 with kernel 2.2.5 just fine. I have upgraded the > kernel to 2.2.12 in an effort to solve a SMP kernel gen problem, and I can > not get raid0 to work at

Raid Questions

1999-09-16 Thread kklatt
Hello -- there is a lot of confusing and incorrect howto's, etc. out there. I was using raid0 with kernel 2.2.5 just fine. I have upgraded the kernel to 2.2.12 in an effort to solve a SMP kernel gen problem, and I can not get raid0 to work at all.. Any advice, including rtm is fine if given the r

Re: Hardware Raid Questions/Suggestions?

1999-07-27 Thread Andy Poling
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, James Deptuck wrote: > Does anyone have any experiences with particular hardware raid controlers > that they'd be willing to share? > What's the most reliable controler? I have experience with the DPT 3334 in several production servers. It may not be the fastest hardware RAI

Hardware Raid Questions/Suggestions?

1999-07-26 Thread James Deptuck
Hello We are purchasing a new server for our company. Does anyone have any experiences with particular hardware raid controlers that they'd be willing to share? What's the most reliable controler? What controler is the easiest to setup and recover in the event of a failure? We would like to put t