Re: bootable raid 1

2000-12-20 Thread Michael
snip I am not 100% certain, but this is the only change that I implemented that made the difference. It might explain why when both drives were installed that the system booted, but when either was removed, it would not boot. Using LBA translation method in both the BIOS and with fdisk

PATCH - raid5 in 2.4.0-test13 - substantial rewrite with substantial performance increase

2000-12-20 Thread Neil Brown
Linus here is a rather large patch for raid5 in 2.4.0-test13-pre3. It is a substantial re-write of the stripe-cache handling code, which is the heart of the raid5 module. I have been sitting on this for a while so that others can test it (a few have) and so that I would have had quite