RE: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-08 Thread Gerrish, Robert
> From: Jakob Østergaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 1:56 PM > To: Linux RAID mailing list > Subject: Re: [new release] raidreconf utility > > > My only experience with LVM is from HPUX. I could create the > equivalent of RAID-0 >

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Ferrell
Jakob Østergaard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:16:57PM -0600, Mark Ferrell wrote: > > You also have to remember that in most LVM implementations adding a device to the > > LVM does not add it to the raid. > [snip] > > "Oh look .. the 90G raid5 array is getting pretty full .. I guess we shou

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:16:57PM -0600, Mark Ferrell wrote: > You also have to remember that in most LVM implementations adding a device to the > LVM does not add it to the raid. [snip] > "Oh look .. the 90G raid5 array is getting pretty full .. I guess we should add > more drives to it .. oh ..

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Ferrell
2, 1999 at 01:56:06PM +0100, Egon Eckert wrote: > > > There's a new version of the raidreconf utility out. I call it 0.0.2. > > > > Isn't this what supposed 'LVM' to be about? (BTW there seem to be 2 > > different implementations of LVM on the

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 01:56:06PM +0100, Egon Eckert wrote: > > There's a new version of the raidreconf utility out. I call it 0.0.2. > > Isn't this what supposed 'LVM' to be about? (BTW there seem to be 2 > different implementations of LVM on the web -- on

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Egon Eckert
> There's a new version of the raidreconf utility out. I call it 0.0.2. Isn't this what supposed 'LVM' to be about? (BTW there seem to be 2 different implementations of LVM on the web -- one included in 0.90 raid patch and one on http://linux.msede.com/lvm/) Can someo

[new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-01 Thread Jakob Østergaard
Hi all ! There's a new version of the raidreconf utility out. I call it 0.0.2. You can download a patch against the current raidtools at http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ New features: *) Bugfix in RAID-0 growth. It now seems to work in all cases with strange disk orde

Re: raidreconf utility

1999-10-19 Thread Jakob Østergaard
he existing code that mkraid uses (from raid_io.c) to do the superblock updating, so some of the clever checks are only maintained in one place. But the raidreconf utility will need some checks added to it, in time. I'll do basic features first, checks later. > Might also benefit in cons

RE: raidreconf utility

1999-10-19 Thread Tom Livingston
Jakob Østergaard wrote: > I started hacking together a utility to allow resizing and eventually > reconfiguration of RAID sets. Kick ass. I had been thinking of doing the same thing, as I could have used such a thing in the past. I gave it a shot on a mini-test raid0 setup i made for it, and it

Re: raidreconf utility

1999-10-19 Thread Stephen Waters
of me arse... -- stephen waters amicus, inc. Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Yea, i know you can boot raid1 because each partition is still recognisable > as normal ext2 partition... > > I was thinking of raid0 and i guess raid 4/5 > > Subject: Re: raidreconf utility > &g

Re: raidreconf utility

1999-10-19 Thread Glenn McGrath
Yea, i know you can boot raid1 because each partition is still recognisable as normal ext2 partition... I was thinking of raid0 and i guess raid 4/5 Subject: Re: raidreconf utility > [ Tuesday, October 19, 1999 ] Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Ive been thinking i would like to try and hac

Re: raidreconf utility

1999-10-19 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, October 19, 1999 ] Glenn McGrath wrote: > Ive been thinking i would like to try and hack grub or lilo to recognise > raid partitions, im not sure how dificult it would be, but its a shame that > the kernel supports boot from striped raid but no bootloaders do. lilo.raid1 patch from the

Re: raidreconf utility

1999-10-19 Thread Glenn McGrath
great to see raid support for a program such as this. Ive been thinking i would like to try and hack grub or lilo to recognise raid partitions, im not sure how dificult it would be, but its a shame that the kernel supports boot from striped raid but no bootloaders do. my 2c Subject: raidreconf u

raidreconf utility

1999-10-17 Thread Jakob Østergaard
Hi people ! I started hacking together a utility to allow resizing and eventually reconfiguration of RAID sets. The utility is called ``raidreconf'', and I intend to make it read two raidtab files (eg. raidtab and raidtab.new), and then (if possible) convert the given MD device from the layout