Hi,
attached is an updated version of md.txt.
I did it because someone complained about missing remarks to the md boot support
and lilo. If you have to add or correct s.th., please mail it to me and I will
include it in md.txt. If s.o. else is willing to maintain md.txt, she or he can
take section 3 and add it to her/his doc.
Please CC to me, cause I am not on this mailing list.
Yours,
Harald
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Multiple devices driver for Linux
Harald Hoyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26.10.98
This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one
logical block device. This can be used to combine several redundant
hard disks to a RAID1/4/5 device so as to provide protection against
hard disk failures.
______________________________________________________________________
Table of Contents
1. Authors
2. Tools and Documentation Sources
3. Boot Support
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Boot Arguments
3.3 Usage with boot loader
3.3.1 lilo
3.3.2 loadlin
______________________________________________________________________
11.. AAuutthhoorrss
+o Copyright (C) 1994-96 Marc ZYNGIER
+o kerneld support by Boris Tobotras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+o Boot support for linear and striped mode by Harald Hoyer
+o RAID-1/RAID-5 extensions by: Ingo Molnar, Miguel de Icaza, Gadi
Oxman
+o Changes for kmod by: Cyrus Durgin
+o Author of this document: Harald Hoyer
22.. TToooollss aanndd DDooccuummeennttaattiioonn
SSoouurrcceess
More information and the necessary tools are available over FTP (user:
anonymous) from <ftp://sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr/pub/Linux> in
the md package and the md-FAQ.
Please read drivers/block/README.md and the relevant section of the
Disk-HOWTO, available via FTP (user: anonymous) from
<ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO>.
Marc ZYNGIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
33.. BBoooott SSuuppppoorrtt
33..11.. IInnttrroodduuccttiioonn
I added boot support for the md device, because if you wanted to have
a md based root device, you had to deal with ramdisks and that was
very uncomfortable. So now you have direct boot and speed support.
Harald Hoyer
33..22.. BBoooott AArrgguummeennttss
You can boot (if you selected boot support in the configuration) with
your md device with the following kernel command line:
md=<md no.>,<level>,<chunk size>,<fault level>,dev0,dev1,...,devn
mmdd nnoo..
is the number of the md device ...
00 means md0,
11 md1,
22 md2,
33 md3
rraaiidd lleevveell
is one of the following numbers
--11 means linear mode
00 striped mode (raid-0)
55 raid-5 mode
other modes are currently not able to boot without the md tools.
cchhuunnkk ssiizzee
is for raid-0 and raid-1 only. Set the chunk size as PAGE_SIZE
<< n.
ffaauulltt lleevveell
is for raid-1 only. Set the maximum fault number as n. Currently
unsupported due to lack of boot support for raid1.
ddeevv00--ddeevvnn
are e.g. /dev/hda1,/dev/hdc1,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1
eexxaammppllee llooaaddlliinn::
e:\ loadlin\loadlin e:\zimage root=/dev/md0
md=0,0,4,0,/dev/hdb2,/dev/hdc3 ro
33..33.. UUssaaggee wwiitthh bboooott llooaaddeerr
33..33..11.. lliilloo
WWAARRNNIINNGG::
If you want to use a md root partition, you have to place your
kernel image zImage, bzImage or vmlinuz on a non-raid partition,
e.g. a small /boot ext2 partition located in the first 512MB of
the harddisk. lilo can't read from a md device at boot time, so
be careful.
You have to add s.th. like this to your lilo.conf:
append="md=0,0,3,0,/dev/hda3,/dev/hdc2"
33..33..22.. llooaaddlliinn
Using loadlin causes no problem with a md root partition, cause
loadlin must already have access to the image.
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Multiple devices driver for Linux
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Harald Hoyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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26.10.98
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This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one logical
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This can be used to combine several redundant hard disks to a RAID1/4/5
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Authors
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Copyright (C) 1994-96 Marc ZYNGIER
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kerneld support by Boris Tobotras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Boot support for linear and striped mode by Harald Hoyer
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RAID-1/RAID-5 extensions by: Ingo Molnar, Miguel de Icaza, Gadi Oxman
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Changes for kmod by: Cyrus Durgin
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Tools and Documentation Sources
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in the md package and the md-FAQ.
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Marc ZYNGIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Boot Support
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Introduction
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I added boot support for the md device, because if you wanted to have a
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So now you have direct boot and speed support.
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Harald Hoyer
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Boot Arguments
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You can boot (if you selected boot support in the configuration) with your
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chunk
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Usage with boot loader
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lilo
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lilo can't read from a md device at boot time, so be careful.
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loadlin
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