Hello

Because of my problems in sending mails yesterday here is my second mail
once again. 

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Hello again :o)

> The old HOWTOs are up to date with the old code.  But the old 
> code is _old_ (and buggy etc.)

Yes, but they discribe that you must patch the 2.0.x kernel. And this
needn�t be done with the actual 2.2.13 kernel. (If s.o. want to use the
old system)

But I have seen your name in the new RAID-HowTo, so no further questions
about the old system :-)

> > My question is now: shall I take the normal kernel-buildin RAID
> > System (with the mdtools) or shall I patch my 2.2.13 kernel
> > (SuSE-Linux Distribution) and use the new one (with the raidtools)?

> Patch 2.2.15pre15 instead.  It's more stable than 2.2.13.

Uh. Is the 2.2.15pre15 a newer kernel or a patch? Where can I get it? 

> > The new one is much easier I think.
> 
> Yep.

I had a night-mare after reading the boot-howto...  :-)

> > But is it really stable enough for a normal RAID 1 System with two
> > IDE-Disks? There is a /boot Partition (now RAID) and a / , /home and
> > /db-Partition on each Disk which I want to mirror.
> 
> RAID-1 is in my experience very stable with IDE disks.

Is it only needful to give every disk its own controller or is it
neccecary?


> Patch for 2.2.14 at http://people.redhat.com/mingo applies fairly well
> to 2.2.15pre15 too, with one (easy) reject in raid1.c which you will
> have to fix by hand.

Aha! You mean that I can take the 2.2.15pre15 kernel (because it is more
stable) and use the 2.2.14 patch from RedHat. Is this right?

What do you mean with reject in raid1.c? Is this a message which
appears, when I patch the kernel? How can I fix by hand? Will I see, how
it can be fixed?



Thanks,

Andreas


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Andreas Martmann

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