hi
Mike Tremaine wrote: > Well I manged to get RAID 1 working with only a little effort. I > installed mdadm from the Centos RPM perfect besides, mdadm is also packaged and contained within devel tarball. > Not sure if this is of interest to anyone or if the EFW developers would > considering add mdadm to the package base [I guess the hard part is make > the install option] exactly. in fact this would be a really cool feature and i already begun integrating it for more than one time, but not finished it. one of the problems is, that i would like to replace the old ipcop-installer code which seeks possible target harddisks with a short kudzu call but don't know how kudzu names devicenames if there is a raid controller (relative to /dev with a subdirectory, like ida/c0d0, or without the subdirectory). i assume relative to /dev, but this eventually breaks installations with raid controllers. > In any case I've over come the 2 big hurdles so it looks like I can > deploy this and see what other fun problems I can find. next problems are how to notice if a disk fails and how to configure grub () in order to do a fallback to the second disk if it fails to boot from the first disk. i know it's possible, but tricky to implement, since grubby (which will be called by rpm as a %post hook of the kernel package during upgrade) cannot update more than one grub target at once. peter -- :: e n d i a n :: open source - open minds :: peter warasin :: http://www.endian.it :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
