On Aug 18, 4:52pm, Marc Mutz wrote:
} Subject: Re: Some questions.
Good day to everyone interested in Linux raid. I hope that this note
is helpful to your day.
> You can try to patch 2.2.11 with the 2.2.10 patch. It should apply more
> or less cleanly. The rest can be corrected by hand. Or use 2.2.12-final
> from Alan Cox's directory on ftp.*.kernel.org. It has the new raid stuff
> integrated. Probably Linus will say 'no' to that for the 'real' 2.2.12,
> but then this should be the only difference.
> > I think it's a shame that the kernel guys don't
> > let you integrate this code directly into the kernel, that would make
> > it a lot easier for the users.
> It makes it "difficult" for all the all the others that are using
> old-style raid semantics and have chosen a rather poor distribution
> (SuSE, in my case) that still comes with the old raidtools :-(
We are using the new raid code heavily to do root, var and swap
mirroring on our production Linux servers. Since I wanted to get out
of 2.2.10 I back-ported the 2.2.12 patches into 2.2.11 so that we
would have a clean diff against the stock 2.2.11 sources.
The patch can be picked up at:
ftp://ftp.nodak.edu/pub/linux/ESD/kernel/raid0145-19990724-2.2.11.gz
We currently have production machines running RAID1 mirrors based on
this patch set so I think that it is correct. Standard caveats about
being careful with this kind of stuff do apply though.
Hopefully others will find this useful. Have a pleasant day.
> Marc
Greg
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