Re-creating raid devices

2000-07-04 Thread Tamas Acs
Hi, I've been reading docs but couldn't figure out how to re-create a raid device without losing data. What I wanna do is add a spare disk/partition to an existing raid1 array. Is there a way to reconfigure the drive(s) without losing data? I have changed the /etc/raidtab file and ran "mkraid

Re: Re-creating raid devices

2000-07-04 Thread Tamas Acs
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Piete Brooks wrote: What I wanna do is add a spare disk/partition to an existing raid1 array. Do you want to keep the N-way mirror with N copies, but add a spare so that when one of the N fails, it will start re-constructing immediately, or do you want to change it

Re: Re-creating raid devices

2000-07-04 Thread Tamas Acs
Hello, Do you want to keep the N-way mirror with N copies, but add a spare so that when one of the N fails, it will start re-constructing immediately, ... If the former, just `raidhotadd'. That is the one I was thinking of using. Should be straightforward ... It was, thanks. IT's

Reconstruction to Spare disk fails

2000-07-06 Thread Tamas Acs
Hi, I"ve been running simulations on our RAD 1 box. I pulled out a drive (they're hot-swappable) and it starts reconstruction on the spare disk but after a while the machine hangs with scsi bus timeouts and resets. I have done the same test without the spare disk. LEt it run in degraded mode

Re: Software RAID1 problems/questions

2000-07-11 Thread Tamas Acs
One quick question, did you patch the 2.2.16 kernel with: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.16-A0 ? Tamas. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Robert Dale wrote: Hello. To start, I installed RedHat 6.1 with root on RAID1. /boot is non-RAID. It's using RedHat's 2.2.12-20 kernel

Re: Software RAID1 problems/questions

2000-07-11 Thread Tamas Acs
One quick question, did you patch the 2.2.16 kernel with: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.16-A0 ? No, but thank you very much!! I would like to know where you got that information. I snooped around and the most I could figure out is that the patches on kernel.org

Re: Problems on reintegrating one disk into raid5-array

2000-07-12 Thread Tamas Acs
Hi, As far as I know "raidhotadd" is what you need. Tamas. On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Patrick Scharrenberg wrote: Hi.. due to a system crash one partition of the raid array has an invalid event counter... so my array runs un degraded mode... but how can I integrate it back to the array???

Re: Help.

2000-07-14 Thread Tamas Acs
Hi, I'm sorry but I do not know how to apply this patch.. when I do #patch raidreconf-0.0.2.patch It just sits there... can u tell me how ya'll made did it? Thank you in advance. Did you type "patch raidreconf-0.0.2.patch" ? ---^^^ btw. what is this patch for and

Re: RAID1

2000-07-14 Thread Tamas Acs
Hi, Sorry that I disturb you with such a problem but can't solve it alone So I have a RedHat6.2 Kernel 2.2.16 and I have RAID (md1) So my question is how can i "move" my current raid (md1) to md0 without loosing the data on the RAID Create the /dev/md0 device, mount it to /mnt/newroot