can't raidhotadd

2000-05-24 Thread Jason Lin
Hi there: Need some help here. OS: standard RedHat6.1, raid level: raid1 /etc]# raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdc7 trying to hot-add [dev 16:07] to md0 ... blkdev_open() failed: -19 md: could not lock [dev 16:07], zero-size? Marking faulty. md: error, md_import_device() returned -22 /dev/md0: can

Re: System lockup during raidhotadd

2000-05-08 Thread James Manning
[Ian Morgan] > I can raidhotremove the (simulated-)faulty disk, and then physically remove > it. Next, I put the disk back in physically. I then want to run raidhotadd to > add the disk back into the array and begin reconstruction. > > Problem is, when I run raidhotadd, the syste

System lockup during raidhotadd

2000-05-06 Thread Ian Morgan
l to simulate a failure. I can raidhotremove the (simulated-)faulty disk, and then physically remove it. Next, I put the disk back in physically. I then want to run raidhotadd to add the disk back into the array and begin reconstruction. Problem is, when I run raidhotadd, the system totally locks

raidhotadd doesn't sync, unless reboot.

2000-04-24 Thread Jason Lin
Hi there: mkraid --really-force /dev/md0 raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hda7 ; After raidhotadd, sometimes it doesn't sync ; But if I reboot, it will start sync'ing. Does anyone know why? Thanks. J. cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid1 hda7

Re: RAID1, raidhotadd, >1024 cylinders

2000-02-02 Thread Benjamin de los Angeles Jr .
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:09:52PM +1100, Chris Cogdon wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Benjamin de los Angeles Jr . wrote: > > > I'm having some error message when I tried 'raidhotadd' on a > > RAID1 array, which consist of 2 IDEs the # of cylinders is 1048, &g

RAID1, raidhotadd, >1024 cylinders

2000-02-02 Thread Benjamin de los Angeles Jr .
I'm having some error message when I tried 'raidhotadd' on a RAID1 array, which consist of 2 IDEs the # of cylinders is 1048, heads is 255: ll_rw_block: device 03:02 only 4096-char blocks implemented(1024) EXT2-fs error(device ide0(3,2):ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode b

Re: Oops while playing with raidhotadd et al on 2.2.13-ac3

1999-12-13 Thread Andreas Trottmann
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:40:53PM +0100, ftc wrote: Whoops, forgot to Cc: the list. > > On a machine with SMP kernel i got these kernel panic now and > > then after adding device. On a different machine with uniprocessor > > kernel, i haven't had got single kernel oops. I could reproduce the k

Oops while playing with raidhotadd et al on 2.2.13-ac3

1999-12-09 Thread Andreas Trottmann
. Normal operation is fine. When I simulate a failure by shutting down the system, removing one drive and powering it up again, it works as expected (i.e. boots, complains that the mirror is missing but continues). At this point, I can use raidhotadd to add a fresh partition to the set and the kernel

raidhotadd

1999-08-13 Thread Andreas Gietl
can i add a partition to a running raid-array with raidhotadd? and how is the right syntax ... there's no manpage and the help is really short. -- andreas gietl dedicated server systems fon +49 9402 2551 fax +49 9402 2604 mobile +49 171 60 70 008 [EMAIL PROT

Re: raidhotadd

1999-08-13 Thread Marc Mutz
Andreas Gietl wrote: > > > > # Das Handbuch sagt, das Programm benötige # > # Windows 95 oder besser. Also habe ich # > # Linux installiert! # > The manual said, the program need

Re: Raid 5 raidhotadd required

1999-03-29 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi, I followed your discussion a little bit, having a question to the fdisk: what did you mean by "changing the partition type for sda2 to fd"? Is it an option to fdisk or does it mean to "fdisk" the drive again (building a "new" partition sda2)? Dietmar Stephen Denny wrote: > > Check if you'v

Re: Raid 5 raidhotadd required

1999-03-28 Thread Piete Brooks
> The only other mystery right now is why I can't raidhotremove a disk. The spec of "raidhotremove" ... > It says it is busy (it is). Yup. > I was expecting raidhotremove to be able to yank it out anyway. I have heard that it isn't done (yet) because of the fear of not getting the checks that

Re: Raid 5 raidhotadd required

1999-03-28 Thread Stephen Denny
dy to put the box into production. The only other mystery right now is why I can't raidhotremove a disk. It says it is busy (it is). I was expecting raidhotremove to be able to yank it out anyway. Stephen On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Piete Brooks wrote: > > My problem is that whenever I boo

Re: Raid 5 raidhotadd required

1999-03-28 Thread Stephen Denny
> Check if you've changed the partition type for sda2 to fd - the disk won't > be recogniced by the kernel if you obmit this and you get exactly the > symptoms described. Bingo! Many thanks. Stephen Denny mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hex.Net Superhighway

Re: Raid 5 raidhotadd required

1999-03-28 Thread Martin Bene
At 23:20 27.03.99 -0600, Stephen Denny wrote: >Then changed sda2 to raid-disk and did a raidhotadd. It >worked fine. > >My problem is that whenever I boot now, the array comes >up without sda2. I can raidhotadd sda2 and things are happy >until the next reboot. Check if

Re: Raid 5 raidhotadd required

1999-03-28 Thread Piete Brooks
> My problem is that whenever I boot now, the array comes > up without sda2. I can raidhotadd sda2 and things are happy > until the next reboot. Hmm -- sounds to me like "raidhotadd" isn't re-writing the SB -- sorry, I don't know how that code works :-( What does a

Raid 5 raidhotadd required

1999-03-28 Thread Stephen Denny
1 device /dev/sdc2 raid-disk 2 Then changed sda2 to raid-disk and did a raidhotadd. It worked fine. My problem is that whenever I boot now, the array comes up without sda2. I can raidhotadd sda2 and things are happy until the next reboot. How can I make

Documentation about raidhotadd/raidhotremove ?

1999-02-25 Thread Richard Jones
Is there any documentation around describing how to use the raidhotadd and raidhotremove commands. AFAICS there are no manual pages and nothing in the raidtools directory describes the commands. The reason: we've been having some problems during testing. If I turn off a disk, then the

Re: raidhotadd: raid5 array online again

1998-12-17 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Thilo Herrmann wrote: > So this is the only significant issue in the 98-12-14/15 alpha release I > encountered so far: hotadding a drive that previously failed without > rebooting the machine. It's an even less likely case: adding a drive that has a completely invalid _bu

raidhotadd: raid5 array online again

1998-12-17 Thread Thilo Herrmann
Ingo: I did reboot the raid5 machine and tried raidhotadd again. Worked without problem. hde1 was rebuilt in the background and marked online in mdstat after that. So this is the only significant issue in the 98-12-14/15 alpha release I encountered so far: hotadding a drive that previously

Re: raidhotadd

1998-12-16 Thread jmm
> The utility for restore or change disks is Raid ARRAY is raidhotadd, but > where is it?? It isn't in raidtools. when you "make install" the raidtools v0.90, it should create a symlink for raidhotadd -> raidstart (same for raidhotremove and raidstop) James Manning --