Re: Behavior of mdadm depending on user

2007-07-03 Thread Ian Dall
with the mdadm command(s) you want. And set it up so apache or whatever your web server runs as able to run your shell script as root without authentication. Ian -- Ian Dall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Proposed enhancement to mdadm: Allow --write-behind= to be done in grow mode.

2007-07-03 Thread Ian Dall
(CREATE, WriteBehind): /* write-behind mode */ write_behind = DEFAULT_MAX_WRITE_BEHIND; -- Ian Dall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: Proposed enhancement to mdadm: Allow --write-behind= to be done in grow mode.

2007-07-03 Thread Ian Dall
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 15:03 +0100, David Greaves wrote: Ian Dall wrote: There doesn't seem to be any designated place to send bug reports and feature requests to mdadm, so I hope I am doing the right thing by sending it here. I have a small patch to mdamd which allows the write-behind

Re: Does --write-behind= have to be done at create time?

2007-06-29 Thread Ian Dall
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 23:22 +0930, Ian Dall wrote: I was wanting to try out the --write-behind option. I have a raid1 with bitmaps and write-mostly enabled, which are all the pre-requisites, I think. It would be nice if you could tweak this parameter on a live array, but failing

Re: raid=noautodetect is apparently ignored?

2007-06-28 Thread Ian Dall
the initrd stuff run but nothing from the root filesystem. Neat idea. I'll try and remember that for the future. -- Ian Dall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Does --write-behind= have to be done at create time?

2007-06-28 Thread Ian Dall
. mdadm wont let me though. Is this a fundamental limitation? A related question, if I do recreate the same array, with exactly the same parameters (except for the write-behind value) will my data still be OK? -- Ian Dall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

raid=noautodetect is apparently ignored?

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Dall
. This is driving me nuts. Maybe changing the type of the hda partitions would help? Any clues appreciated. Ian -- Ian Dall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: raid=noautodetect is apparently ignored?

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Dall
root device. mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/sda8 echo Mounting root filesystem. mount /sysroot echo Setting up other filesystems. setuproot echo Switching to new root and running init. switchroot -- Ian Dall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux