Re: Problem with RAID1 on kernel 2.4

2002-02-28 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Russell Yes it was "nr-spare-disks 1" I just cut and copied setup from another machine and edited to illustrate my message. I missed the spare disks. :-( At least raidtools2 shouts very quickly when you do that (I know!). Thanks Ian On 27 Feb 2002, at 15:14, Russell Coker wrote: >

Re: Problem with RAID1 on kernel 2.4

2002-02-28 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Russell Yes it was "nr-spare-disks 1" I just cut and copied setup from another machine and edited to illustrate my message. I missed the spare disks. :-( At least raidtools2 shouts very quickly when you do that (I know!). Thanks Ian On 27 Feb 2002, at 15:14, Russell Coker wrote:

Re: Problem with RAID1 on kernel 2.4

2002-02-27 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Russell Thanks for your comments. On 26 Feb 2002, at 11:32, Russell Coker wrote: > > 2) Then I had endless problems with raid1. It seems that the > > "failed-disk" directive in /etc/raidtab does not work. I think > > it has something to do with devfs - which is compiled into

Re: Problem with RAID1 on kernel 2.4

2002-02-27 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Russell Thanks for your comments. On 26 Feb 2002, at 11:32, Russell Coker wrote: > > 2) Then I had endless problems with raid1. It seems that the > > "failed-disk" directive in /etc/raidtab does not work. I think > > it has something to do with devfs - which is compiled into

Re: Problem with RAID1 on kernel 2.4

2002-02-26 Thread Russell Coker
One thing I forgot to mention, make sure you use raidtools2 not raidtools! -- Signatures >4 lines are rude. If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I am subscribed to which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with th

Re: Problem with RAID1 on kernel 2.4

2002-02-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:41, I. Forbes wrote: > 1) The initrd is massive about 3mB, I hope that means I will always > have all the modules I will ever need at boot time, and I assume > the RAM is freed up by the time the system is running. I > increased the size of my boot partition to

Re: Problem with RAID1 on kernel 2.4

2002-02-26 Thread Russell Coker
One thing I forgot to mention, make sure you use raidtools2 not raidtools! -- Signatures >4 lines are rude. If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I am subscribed to which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with t

Re: Problem with RAID1 on kernel 2.4

2002-02-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:41, I. Forbes wrote: > 1) The initrd is massive about 3mB, I hope that means I will always > have all the modules I will ever need at boot time, and I assume > the RAM is freed up by the time the system is running. I > increased the size of my boot partition to