Re: partitions for RAID volumes?

2001-02-21 Thread Matt Stegman
3 (other). And if I > have too, I can boot off either drive individually with any raid > happening. Is there any particular reason to prefer this over LVM? With 2.4, LVM can be a layer atop of software RAID, allowing for multiple volumes, online volume resizing, and other cool things. -Matt S

Re: gzipped executables

2001-02-13 Thread Matt Stegman
Hello, Anything in 2.4 isn't an option right now. I'm using, and am really happy with, the ext3 journalling patch. I'm not planning on a 2.4 upgrade until ext3 has been ported. Damn shame I don't have the skill to do that myself... ext2 compression would be great. First off, though, I'm alrea

gzipped executables

2001-02-12 Thread Matt Stegman
Is there any kernel patch that would allow Linux to properly recognize, and execute gzipped executables? I know I could use binfmt_misc to run a wrapper script: decompress to /tmp/prog.decompressed execute /tmp/prog.decompressed rm /tmp/prog.decompressed But that's not as clean, sec

ext3 and Software RAID

2000-10-07 Thread Matt Stegman
2.2.17, with ext3-0.0.3b, and Ingo Molnar's 2.2.17 RAID patch: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.17-A0 -Matt Stegman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/