Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> someone out there correct me if i am wrong, but from looking at my boxes: [big snip] > allan Ok, now it's clear. I need to patch my kernel. =) I fount a patch here: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patch But, another question, so theresn't any problem running a raid on the same d

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread phil
Perhaps it would help to put some version information in the proc file? A raid-md version or something? It seems that most people's troubles are related to not being able to confirm if they really were able to patch, build, and install the kernel properly. Just my $.02. Phil On Thu, Mar 23,

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread David Cooley
At 04:25 PM 3/23/2000, James Manning wrote: >[flag] > > And if I get the same msg when I try to build a raid 0? (my kernel > > is RAID patched: 2.2.14) > > > > [flag@Luxor flag]$ cat /proc/mdstat > > Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5] > > read_ahead not set > > md0 : inactive

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread James Manning
[flag] > And if I get the same msg when I try to build a raid 0? (my kernel > is RAID patched: 2.2.14) > > [flag@Luxor flag]$ cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5] > read_ahead not set > md0 : inactive > md1 : inactive > md2 : inactive > md3 : inactive alla

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread m . allan noah
someone out there correct me if i am wrong, but from looking at my boxes: raid 0.4x (which comes stock in the 2.2.x series of kernels) has a /proc/mdstat that looks like this: [root@finch root]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5] read_ahead not set md0 : in

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread David Cooley
I got the same errors until I increased my chunk size to 32K At 01:32 PM 3/23/2000, you wrote: >On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, m. allan noah wrote: > > > > mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues > >And if I get the same msg when I try to build a raid 0? (my kernel >is RAID p

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread flag
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, m. allan noah wrote: > > mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues And if I get the same msg when I try to build a raid 0? (my kernel is RAID patched: 2.2.14) [flag@Luxor flag]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 r

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread Marc Mutz
"m.allan noah" wrote: > > instead, then you are running a patched kernel, and your problem must lie > elsewhere (try recompiling the raid tools from source) ... and check if you installed the raidtools.rpm and not the mdutils.rpm. Marc -- Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://marc.mut

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-22 Thread m . allan noah
probably, you are not REALLY running a patched kernel. if you cat /proc/mdstat and see stuff about /dev/md0 being 'inactive' then you are running an unpatched kernel, need to check lilo and make sure the new kernel is there. also check your patch for rejects and your config to have raid built

Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-22 Thread Rainer Frohne
Hello, since two days (and nights) I try to get software RAID 0.90 running on SuSE-Linux with a standard kernel 2.2.14 with an raid patch found at .../mingus running. I can try what I want, every time the following error appears: mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential cl