I'd like to say thanks to everyone who responded to my
questions about the raid patches for 2.2.9. It appears that the server was
down - also effecting the Linux-kernel list - late Sunday/early Monday. I
finally got all your responses!
Looks like I will search for the patch from Ingo in the
Archives, or use the one provided by Mike Black (probably get both and compare
the two!).
I did have some questions for RedHat, if they are listening,
that maybe someone here can address also.
1) Is it possible to upgrade an old version of raid storage to
the new? Since I was lucky enough to have a tape backup, I was able to
wipe out my old raid array and start from scratch. RedHat didn't give any
directions or info on how to upgrade, but I think I found something under mkraid
(--upgrade option). The note that "this option should be used with care"
doesn't give me a good feeling though.
2) Is there any work to integrate raid setup into the install
process (disk druid may be)? Unless you can do this, it's kind of
difficult to do an install. I had to install on an IDE drive and then boot
up in single user mode, make my raid devices, copy over the data, and reboot
hoping everything would work (it did). So the question to be asked is, why
would RedHat be concerned what version of raid driver was in the kernel if they
make it so difficult to do an install on a raid device?
Thanks again for your help, and I look forward to the time
when the new raid "alpha" is rolled into the stable kernel tree for good.
Hopefully this will be soon, as a major distributor has included it in their
version of the kernel...
Fred
