From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Tran Subject: Re: building network software raid Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:16:24 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1022004984.3cea8ef8127dd@imap.linux.ibm.com> References: <1021999937.3067.15.camel@chiayi.csie.nctu.edu.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1021999937.3067.15.camel@chiayi.csie.nctu.edu.tw> To: lylai Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Quoting lylai : > I'm a student doing an OS project: build a software raid over the > network. > > I intend to use existing software RAID program. The plan is that build > the raid on a device that is not a real physical device, but a device I > made up. I'll handle the I/O request through the network. > > I already wrote a simple device driver with all the required functions, > and try to "mkraid" on the created new devices. But it failed with > error: > > /dev/md0: Invalid arguments > > I want to know what information is needed to make mkraid, ... etc. run > properly that they see it as a true hard disk. And what operations are > needed to pass these information out. > > Thank you for your advices. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Try the following URL: http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ Mike Tran