Re: Software RAID1 problems/questions

2000-07-11 Thread Tamas Acs
> > One quick question, did you patch the 2.2.16 kernel with: > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.16-A0 ? > > No, but thank you very much!! I would like to know where you got > that information. I snooped around and the most I could figure out > is that the patches on kerne

Re: Software RAID1 problems/questions

2000-07-11 Thread Robert Dale
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Tamas Acs wrote: > One quick question, did you patch the 2.2.16 kernel with: > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.16-A0 ? No, but thank you very much!! I would like to know where you got that information. I snooped around and the most I could figure out i

Re: Software RAID1 problems/questions

2000-07-11 Thread Tamas Acs
One quick question, did you patch the 2.2.16 kernel with: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.16-A0 ? Tamas. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Robert Dale wrote: > > Hello. > > To start, I installed RedHat 6.1 with root on RAID1. /boot is non-RAID. > It's using RedHat's 2.2.12-20 kernel

Software RAID1 problems/questions

2000-07-11 Thread Robert Dale
Hello. To start, I installed RedHat 6.1 with root on RAID1. /boot is non-RAID. It's using RedHat's 2.2.12-20 kernel which seems to have extra RAID stuff in it. RAID1 is actually built as a module so it loads an initrd that has only raid1.o, sh, and insmod in it. I tried to upgrade to 2.2.16 by

Re: Software RAID1 on RedHat 6.2

2000-05-31 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Jason Lin wrote: > If you put / and /boot on raid then probably your swap > is also on raid. > No, unless you configured it this way. But be careful with swap on raid. It is currently not save to swap on raid while an array is being reconstructed eg. after a crash. I am us

Re: Software RAID1 on RedHat 6.2

2000-05-30 Thread Jason Lin
If you put / and /boot on raid then probably your swap is also on raid. Does having swap on raid have any significant impact on performance? J. --- Holger Kiehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After doing more reading and lurking on this > maillist, I'm starting to get > > the idea that hav

Re: Software RAID1 on RedHat 6.2

2000-05-29 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Sun, 28 May 2000, David Francis wrote: > Hello, > > I have just set up a new web server with two drives each configured with > four identical partitions. The three "non-swap" partitions are all set up > as RAID level 1 mirrors. Everything is up and running fine. > > md0 = / > md1 = /home

Software RAID1 on RedHat 6.2

2000-05-28 Thread David Francis
Hello, I have just set up a new web server with two drives each configured with four identical partitions. The three "non-swap" partitions are all set up as RAID level 1 mirrors. Everything is up and running fine. md0 = / md1 = /home md2 = /usr I physically removed each of the drives at diffe

Re: Software RAID1

2000-04-20 Thread m . allan noah
Robert, i bet you are using some platform other than intel? a 64bit machine perhaps? if this is the case, the raid code does not work properly without a patch. byte ordering issues, it seems. check the archive at marc.theaimsgroup.com for this patch. it was for PPC. allan Robert Hélie <[EMAIL P

Software RAID1

2000-04-20 Thread Robert Hélie
Hi, I have just finished configuring a RAID 1 array. Since my system was already installed I used the "failed-disk" approach. When I tried rebooting the system Linux told me that the "persisten-superblock" was not the right size. Here are the steps I followed: RAIDTAB file: raiddev /dev/md0