Re: softwareraid
hi ya
donno what youa re doing...
what does /etc/fstab look like...
what does /etc/raidtab look like..
c ya
alvin
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote:
> I did all shown in the Softare-Raid-HOWTO, but it didn't work. I did
> the mkraid /dev/md0 with the umounted partition /var. It aborted and
> wanted me to look at the syslogs. But if the /var partition is
> umounted, there's no place to log to.
> What can I do now?
>
> Thanks,
> Manuel
>
> >
> > I gonna try that. I'll tell you the results.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Manuel
> > >
> > >
> > > hi ya manuel..
> > >
> > > sounds like you want a "root-boot mirror"...not just mirroring..
> > > which is trickier...
> > > - i say just run lilo on the mirrored disk...
> > > each time you change the booting thingies
> > > ( kernels, lilo, etc )
> > > - than it should boot if you do get to hdb instead of hda
> > > - why make it complicated ???
> > >
> > > if / or the / partition dies...you've got bigger problems
> > > than just mirroring anyway.....mirroring wont hide the source/cause
> > > of the problems...
> > >
> > > c ya
> > > alvin
> > >
> > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks for the first time. that's what I wanted. But is it possible to
> > > > boot than from the mirror. How does this funktion?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Manuel
> > > >
> > > > > hi ya manuel..
> > > > >
> > > > > none.... you already have mirroring part of the kernel...
> > > > >
> > > > > just setup /etc/raidtab for raid1 == mirroring
> > > > >
> > > > > http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid/raid1.conf
> > > > > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid
> > > > >
> > > > > you can tell it what partitions to mirror...
> > > > > ( i think both disks should be partitioned indentically
> > > > > ( on identical manufacturers drives to minimize headaches
> > > > >
> > > > > have fun
> > > > > alvin
> > > > > http://www.linux-1U.net ... 1U Raid5 ....
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have to setup a machine with a sofwareraid, just a mirror. Which
> > > > > > tool should I use, raidtools, raidtools2 or mdutils?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I already set up the machine on one disk. I made the five partitions,
> > > > > > boot, root, swap, usr, var. Is it possible to mirror the whole disk
> > > > > > and boot from the boot partition? By the way, I got debian potato
> > > > > > installed.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks fot any help,
> > > > > > Manuel
> > > >
> > > >
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