Joshua Kugler <joshua.kugler <at> uaf.edu> writes: > > On Thursday 17 March 2005 12:43, Chris Biltcliffe wrote: > > After a brief experiment with Mandrake (which is what the customer > > originally asked for), and finding that its support for RAID is dismal, at > > best, without way more screwing around than I wanted to do, I've > > reinstalled SuSE, and, with a little screwing around using the advice I got > > so far, I've managed to get the bacula daemon running, interfaced with > > MySQL, with no errors. This was using the precompiled packages for SuSE > > 9.2. > > Disclaimer: This is not an OS flame. > > What kind of problems did you have with Mandrake? I've used Linux RAID under > Mandrake before and found it very usable and stable. Right now, our backup > server is Mdk 10.1 with the backup spool on a 67GB linear RAID partition (two > 36.x GB drives strung together). It's been rock solid, and has already saved > us a few times. > > I'm just curious, because I've found Mdk to be stable and usable in this > application...just wondering what kind of problems you were having. > > j----- k----- >
Installs fine, then explodes on reboot. It doesn't create all the necessary /dev/md? devices, just md0. Of course, when it tries to mount them, it vomits all over the place, because they don't exist. I tried some Googling, found you could do 'mknod /dev/md1 b 9 1' in single user mode, then do 'raidstart /dev/md1', and mount it, but raidtools wasn't installed by default, even though I set up RAID during the install. Reinstalled, explicitly installing raidtools, and while the raidstart command existed, now, it still crapped when trying to start the RAID device. Besides...I don't want to have to do that every time the system needs to be rebooted. There should be a way to fix it, but every solution Google managed to come up with didn't work. I don't mean to put down Mandrake, as I've used it as a desktop OS back in the 8.x days, and was quite happy with it. The only reason I stopped using it was memory usage on my wife's PII-300MHz/64MB laptop. Mandrake just got a little too heavy for it, so I switched it to Debian. I'd probably still be quite happy with Mandrake as a desktop OS, but the installer doesn't seem to handle RAID well at all. I'll admit, I'm not familiar with it anymore, but considering how easily SuSE sets up RAID, and Mandrake is supposed to be the ultimate newbie-friendly distro, the installer was shockingly bad. Hell, I've even got RAID working with Debian before, which seemed easier than Mandrake. I know, I know.....when is a newbie ever going to need to set up RAID... well, that's not the point. There shouldn't be all sorts of weird tweaks and manual messing around that you have to do to get it set up. That was Linux in 1998, and I thought we'd moved well beyond that, now. So, I'm back to SuSE, and still trying to get the bacula tray monitor to connect to the daemon. Email from the daemon says it's not able to authenticate, but I haven't checked the logs for more detail yet. When I do that tomorrow, I'll be sure to post. Thanks, Chris ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
