From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: raidreconf Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 14:28:15 +0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <410CC5BF.4050600@wasp.net.au> References: <1091196159.410a54ff91240@www.tastycake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1091196159.410a54ff91240@www.tastycake.net> To: Nick Maynard Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Nick Maynard wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to track down a recent version of raidreconf, but all my Google > searches have come up blank - the latest I can find is 2001 sometime. > > Now, I know someone on the list (Brad I think) has been working on raidreconf > quite recently - has anyone got any info on where I can get a more recent > version? Things have slowed a little in that department at the moment as my main test hard disk underwent a rapid deceleration test from a table to a tiled floor and has somewhat ceased to function. (Don't try this one at home kids) Prior to that I had got as far as intermittently creating raid-6 volumes that worked (the rest of the time the blocks were all intact but in the wrong order!) and kludging it to work with raid-5 volumes over 2TB. (I did manage to reconfigure a 1.6TB array to be a 2.1TB array with no data loss). I have a new set of test drives in my purchase queue, but have not quite got that far yet. The raidtools-1.00.3.tar.gz package is the one I have been working with and seems to be pretty stable on anything under 2TB. I certainly did not hit any major flaws while working with it as is. I'm currently thinking about how to do it while removing the dependency on raidtools and moving to a mdadm like setup, but have not got far down that path. If you want to use raidreconf and you created your arrays with mdadm then use lsraid to generate a suitable raidtab, edit that to create the new one and have at it. On <2TB I found it pretty solid. Regards, Brad