From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from webmail.tiscalinet.be (webmail2.tiscali.be [212.35.2.201]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3B44829 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:36 -0600 (MDT) To: James Braid Subject: RE: [parisc-linux] L2000 stable with SMP and RAID Message-ID: <1026404705.3d2db1618f064@webmail.tiscalinet.be> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:25:05 +0200 (CEST) From: joel.soete@freebel.net Cc: 'Joel Soete' , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org References: <005801c22780$93f57770$5e01000a@bongo> In-Reply-To: <005801c22780$93f57770$5e01000a@bongo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi James, Quoting James Braid : > > For my part I would like to test RAID-1 on my B180 (2 of 9Gb). > > Could you let me know more on the RAID configuration you implemented? > > Do you have a special slice (partition) for your F0 (parisc > > bootloader) > > and may be also for /boot? > > My RAID config is just a 2-disk RAID-0 array for testing at the moment. > Heres the raidtab (probably not a lot of use to you though): > > ---- > > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level 0 > nr-raid-disks 2 > chunk-size 4 > > device /dev/sdb1 > raid-disk 0 > device /dev/sdc1 > raid-disk 1 > > ---- > > Theres a RAID-1 root howto for Debian which I have used in the past > here: http://www.james.rcpt.to/programs/debian/raid1/ > Thanks to this, I build on my second disk sdb1 (a F0 slice of about 16Mb) sdb2 swap (128Mb == Physical memory size) sdb3 /boot (about 64Mb to be able to test severall kernels) sdb5 => md0 / (about 1.5 Gb) modify fstab to replace my boot device by /dev/md0; modify palo.conf to make this disk bootable and find its kernel into /boot partition and that works. I just now have to complete the raidtab configuration and recover the rest of my own slices than finaly fully rebuild md in non degraded mode and a small script to duplicate F0 and boot slices (not yet supported as md AFAIK). Many thanks again for your help, Joel ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through Tiscali Webmail (http://webmail.tiscali.be)