From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Puschmann Subject: RE: building network software raid Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:31:16 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <210BDEC895C9D511A18D0000B493CEB4BD42@EXCHANGE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: To: 'lylai' Cc: 'linux-raid' List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi! Take a look at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/ It may help you. Best regards Puschl > -----Original Message----- > From: lylai [mailto:lylai@csie.nctu.edu.tw] > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:52 PM > To: unlisted-recipients > Cc: linux-raid > Subject: building network software raid > > 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