Re: md5 becomes mdf when mdadd'ed under 2.1.135 -- expected ?

1998-10-28 Thread Kersten Bühnert
Jeff Hahn wrote: > > >under Linux you can use another partitioning scheme too, BSD > disklabels. > >But any nontrivial combination of block ranges needs something like > >LINEAR. But otherwise i aggree that there might be place for a new RAID > >level called 'SPLICE' or the ability to partition a

Re: md5 becomes mdf when mdadd'ed under 2.1.135 -- expected ?

1998-10-26 Thread Jeff Hahn
>under Linux you can use another partitioning scheme too, BSD disklabels. >But any nontrivial combination of block ranges needs something like >LINEAR. But otherwise i aggree that there might be place for a new RAID >level called 'SPLICE' or the ability to partition a RAID device as well. > > Ingo

Re: md5 becomes mdf when mdadd'ed under 2.1.135 -- expected ?

1998-10-25 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
under Linux you can use another partitioning scheme too, BSD disklabels. But any nontrivial combination of block ranges needs something like LINEAR. But otherwise i aggree that there might be place for a new RAID level called 'SPLICE' or the ability to partition a RAID device as well.

Re: md5 becomes mdf when mdadd'ed under 2.1.135 -- expected ?

1998-10-25 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Piete Brooks wrote: > >> BTW: is there any fundamental reason why MD has to work on whole > >> partitions, rather than being able to take a range of blocks within a > >> partition ? Combined with resize2fs, this would make a "really useful" > >> facility to resize filesyste

Re: md5 becomes mdf when mdadd'ed under 2.1.135 -- expected ?

1998-10-25 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Piete Brooks wrote: > Using 2.1.125 "out of the box", I manually edited MAX_MD_DEV in > include/linux/md.h to allow more devices -- is there any other way to do > this? the newest 0.90 raidtools and driver both deal with this already, the default is 16 devices and all nami

md5 becomes mdf when mdadd'ed under 2.1.135 -- expected ?

1998-10-24 Thread Piete Brooks
[ I'm not on the list, so please ensure you reply to me directly, and feel free to point me at TFM to R ... ] Using 2.1.125 "out of the box", I manually edited MAX_MD_DEV in include/linux/md.h to allow more devices -- is there any other way to do this? Anyway, it all works just fine for the bo