On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, David Mansfield wrote:
| Yes. There are no more md-tools they have been replaced with the
| raidtools. I'm not sure, but I think the new system is capable of running
| an old array...
Hopefully.
| That's not good. I have old copies of mdadd, mdcreate, mdrun and mdstop
| on my RedHat 4.2 (libc 5) system. I'll email 'em to you if you think it
| will help.
That would really be great -- mine we in /sbin , which is on the fried
root partition.
| > The raidtools have the "feature" that they require a kernel patch. For
| > me, the kernel patch 2.2.0 did not work out. I'll check the 2.2.3 one, of
| > course, but I am not holding my breath.
|
| The 2.2.3 patch applies cleanly to 2.2.3, but I guess your issue is
| compatibility with an old array, which I can't help you with,
| unfortunately.
I did manage to apply the 2.2.0 patch on the 2.2.1 kernel, compiler and
install. The problem was that the kernel bombed somewhere in checking the
partition tables. I did some investigation, but I abandoned it later in
wait of later patches (2.2.3, hopefully).
| > Also, raidtools require (AFIK) the array to be rebuilt, necessarily by
| > loosing the data -- exactly what I want to avoid.
|
| Probably not, you may just need to create /etc/raidtab to reflect the
| proper layout and call raidstart. If you can find info vis-a-vis a
| persistent superblock, that may be the only change, and it is optional
| (i.e legacy systems should be supported).
That sounds like music to my ear -- I'll definitely check the 2.2.3
package ASAP.
| Let me know if you want to try my binaries.
Yes, please.
Thank you very much for your help,
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Penio Penev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1-212-327-7423
