Ira Abramov wrote:
Howdie,
The Subject sums it up. A client of mine is running a CheckPoint
SecurePlatform machine (a castrated Red Hat), and now wants to add a
second disk in a software raid setup. Googling brought up nothing, so if
there is such a procedure authorised by Checkpoint, it's only documented
on pages with no public access I guess.
so, a few questions: Is securePlatform's kernel compiled with MD
support? is there an official procedure for this or should one
"improvise"? Won't reinstalling on RAID and restoring the settings be
faster? safer?
Thanks in advance,
Ira.
One more point I forgot. If you are recompiling the kernel to allow MD,
make sure you use their exact kernel version and config, with the only
difference being the md support. I can tell you that when CP originally
ported FW-1 to Linux, they did it almost twice. Once for vanilla, and a
second time for RedHat kernels. This was due to some kernel patch RedHat
were using at the time, that changed some internal structure in the
kernel. As you don't have the FW-1 sources, you cannot recompile that,
and you had better make sure that you don't break the existing one.
Shachar
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