> we are trying to set up RAID1 as described in the Software-RAID-howto.
>
> md-support is compiled into the kernel (not as module) and RAID1 too.
I guess you are using something like SuSE linux or any of the other
distributions which do not have the latest raid-patches built into the kernel.
The raid support in stock or SuSE kernels does not work with raidtools-0.90. You
will need to get the latest raid0145 patches from
ftp.<country-code>.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha/, patch your kernel
source and rebuild your kernel, to use the latest raidtools. Or you can
downgrade to the old raid/mdtools-0.50, but this is an inferior solution.
> Raid0 ist not compiled in, because the Kernel appears to support Raid0
> for swap by default (correct me, when I'm wrong). Swap is setup as RAID0
> and seems to work fine.
If you mean that the kernel automatically stripes across swap devices of equal
priority, then you are right. If you mean that you have put your swap on a
RAID-0 device, then that is pointless.
> # Wieviele Ersatzpartitionen gibt es?
> # (IMMER 0 bei Raid 1!)
> nr-spare-disks 0
The commented advice here is wrong. It is quite conceivable that one might want
a spare-disk in a RAID-1 setup.
Cheers,
Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED]
