I've ran old MD-utils since it come out and still running it, very heavly.
I've only had major problems, when there was hardware problems, of course
there are bugs in all software. I'd say to move up tho. Use the new
raid-utils. I don't do the boot-Raid, if you're not, you should be fine,
the new Raid-howto, confusing at times, isn't all that bad, to understand.
Hardest problem, I had was folling all the sites/howto's
Eg. they tell you to goto
http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/
Looking at the dates, and all those stuff is very old, dated wise anyway.
I'm using one the alpha's ,raidtools-19990824-0.90
with kernel 2.3.48 (which is buggy)
dual pent-3 600, 768m ram
two maxtor 6gig (both setup as boot drives, I copy /bin /sbin over to
other drive only when stuff changes, which isn't often)
promise ata66, 4 maxtor 40gigs
Personalities : [linear] [raid0]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid0 hdf1[1] hde1[0]
80019456 blocks 64k chunks
unused devices: <none>
currently have /dev/md0 NFS's over to another machine. I've copying my old
md0 onto the new md0, deleteing it, and then copying it again, over and
over. I'll do that for week, if it's stable, I'm try to mirror /dev/md0
with other two maxtor's.
4:38pm up 3 day, 3:38, 1 user, load average: 1.32, 0.82, 1.28
No problems so far.
As long as you don't try scsi, probly wont have any problems either.
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Andreas Martmann wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have to install a RAID 1 System in order to mirror all partitions (exept the
> /boot partition, I think). The Problem is that I havenīt made this before, and I
> havenīt found a documentation that gives me the answers I need.
>
> There are three HowTos available the old (normal) RAID HowTo for RAID Systems
> in Kernel 2.0.x and 2.2.x, the Boot-RAID-HowTO and the new Raid-HowTo.
>
> The Old HowTos are from 1998 and I think they are not up-to-date, isnīt it?
>
