On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 05:59:33PM -0000, Jack Gavigan wrote:
> RAID. The Software RAID Howto is less of a HOWTO than a FAQ for experienced
> RAIDers... Took me about 20 minutes to figure out that mdadd and raidadd are
> actually the same thing. :)
since the raid software is still in alpha stage the HOWTO/FAQ are inevitably
outdated, and they will be unless mingo finds the time to keep a changelog
Read the mailing list, someone was so kind to provide an archive of the list
but i dun remembre the url
> My question, I guess, is: Am I right in thinking that it's necessary to
> create a script in rc2.d which executes raidrun and mount, and another in
> rc0.d which runs unmount and raidstop, to mount and unmount my raid
> partition?
not with the newest raidtoools you just have to set the partition type
to 0xfd
> The OS I'm using is Redhat 5.2, 2.0.38 kernel recompiled for SMP (2
2.0.38? am i missing something
> Pentiums, 320Mb RAM) with RAID support included at compile time. Version of
> raidtools in use is raidtools-0.50beta10 (off the RedHat CD). Setup is a
bah, junk the raidtools supplied with redhat, junk also every reference
to raidadd/raidstop in the /etc/rc.d... scripts and use the newest
raidtools instead.
<RANT> why the **** did they have to include an outdated alpha version of
raidtools in their distro</RANT>
for building a root raid best thing is to install on disk 1
build a raid-with-only-one-disk on thisk 2
copy all files from disk 1 to raid, raidhotadd disk1
(leave /boot out of the raid otherwise lilo will complain).
Regards.
Luca
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Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System and Network Manager - CoMedia s.r.l.
