Hi all: I can now confirm that RAID-1, at least, works just fine on the ultra platform.
I'm running and booting off RAID-1. Ultra5, potato release, slightly patched up to support 2.4.9 kernel. The RAID arrays are formatted with ext3, so I can confirm that works too :) The only slight problem is that it seems the kernel doesn't autodetect the partitions as being RAID, even when I mark them as 0xFD type. However, an 'append="md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sde2"' in /etc/silo.conf did the trick, for now. smooth:/# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 3803344 939432 2670708 26% / /dev/md0 62653 9856 49562 17% /boot I'm running bonnie right now, and will post the results later. Cheers. Keith > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:10:05PM +0200, Fabbione wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > since there are several issues running RAID on sparc from what I can > > understand in your email, can you kindly tell which kind of tests are > > needed?? > > ..one it will the boot on a raid.. which kind are theoretically > > supported by Silo > > and company??? > > Maybe I can take care to test some of this stuff after I will fix the > > problem > > with the IDPROM (hopefully this night...) > > Just take two or more partitions and configure them in raid1 and raid5, > and create a filesystem on it, and copy some files around. I'm not > really concerned about booting right now. > > Ben > > -- > .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. > / Ben Collins -- SPARC/UltraSPARC Porter -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
