Hi James,
>> Far as I can tell, this should change - at least I got an email from ingo
>> asking for my patch adapted to the latest release of raidtools for
>> inclusion into the driver. I sent the patch yesterday, so let's see what
>> happens :-)
> Great, are you releaseing those patches against 19990421 or do we need to
> wait until Ingo has merged them?
> If you're releasing them, where can I get them from?
Since you're not the only one to ask, here you are; in the attached .tar.gz
file you'll find patches for raidtools v.90 19990421 and for the
corresponding kernel; the kernel patch should work for 2.0.36 as well as
2.2.6; apply after the 19990421 kernel patches.
micro-howto:
for raid levels 1/4/5 you can replace one of the "raid-disk" entries in
/etc/raidtab with "failed-disk". The device specified for failed-disk is
not touched when creating the raid device; in fact, it doesn't have to
exist at all - you could use /dev/foobar.
* create raid device in degraded mode using mkraid
* copy your existing files over to the new raid device (cp -a -R works for me)
* after you're using the new raid device, raidhotadd the original disk to
the array.
Things to remember:
* don't mark the smallest partition as failed-disk; otherwise you won't be
able to raidhotadd it at a later time.
* put the faild-disk entry after the raid-disk entries in raidtab -
otherwise you'll have trouble manually starting the device using raidstart.
* things to remember after you've finished moving to the new raid device:
Update your raidtab file (replace failed-disk with raid-disk) and change
partition type of original partition to fd.
Bye, Martin
raid-failed-disk.tar.gz
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