I have installed raid 0.90 & kernel 2.0.36, I have 2 md mirror partition,
/ and /u (all partition type fd)
all runs ok, configuration is quite complex but not impossible, thanks to mail
on this mailing-list.
1) only 1 problem:
---- if I run an "halt", all is ok, md stops correctly, so on
reboot I have no reconstruction.
---- if I run "reboot", raid doesn't stop, so at reboot, I have a
reconstruction of raid. from some test (but without / on raid) it seems tat
kernel 2.2 doesn't have problem (may be).
and 2 questions:
2) lilo does not run on raid partition. but why ? (in particular for mirrored
partitions I don't see any "big" counter indication in handling md partition -
no read from multiple disks - no strange fs structure - only some space
reserved at end of partition). If lilo could handle mirrored partition, life
during installation could be easier !
3) I have an "hot swap" computer (in sense that I can extract and reinsert
disks without power off). When I extrace 1 disk, kernel hangs.
May be because I have swaps on both of my disks ? and in this case what is the
safe response to this ? no swap and a lot of memory ? (I think this is not
good :)
I have swapoffed, and kernel has not hanged when I have plugged off 1 disk -
only some "freeze", then I had my system running correctly (obviously in
degraded mode).
P.S. I am not on the list, I read from archive, so if some one want other
info, please replay to email address to.
thanks
