On Sep 15, 2:01pm, Chris Mauritz wrote:
} Subject: Re: Newbie: What to do when a disk fails?
> > This all pretty much implies that a new RAID patchset will be required
> > when 2.2.13 hits the streets.
>
> Sigh. So what do the RAID deities suggest someone use for "production"
> if they're starting out with a clean install and can use any ol'
> kernel or raid patch they desire? What's the most stable at this
> point?
I am far from a deity but I have been using 2.2.12 with the 2.2.11
patches and omitting the memory leak patch for those boxes that I need
software RAID support for. A clean diff of the 08/24/1999 patches
against a virgin 2.2.12 kernel can be obtained from:
ftp://ftp.nodak.edu/pub/linux/ESD/kernel/raid0145-19990824-2.2.12.gz
We are running production boxes on this code base with RAID1
mirroring for /, swap and /var without any problems.
The boxes haven't run into memory problems either but the leak appears
to be somewhat specific to the system load mix.
The other alternative is to use 2.2.11. The directory above contains
an older patch set which will drop clearnly in against a 2.2.11
kernel. In this case you will probably want to obtain the TCP/IP
memory leak fixes and apply those as well. We are running production
boxes with that mix and all seems to be well.
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
Good luck.
Greg
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