Re: Reconfiguring one SW-RAID when other RAIDs are running

H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-05T10:47:14Z

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday November 4, hpa@zytor.com wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm trying to re-create a RAID while leaving the other RAIDs --
>>including the root filesystem -- running, but mkraid refuses to run:
>>
>>hera 1 # mkraid /dev/md2
>>/dev/md0: array is active -- run raidstop first.
>>mkraid: aborted.
>>(In addition to the above messages, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat as well
>> for potential clues.)
>
>
> I cannot offer any help on using mkraid, except to avoid it :-(
> mdadm is (I believe and others agree) much easier to use.
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
>
> It is definately being maintained, not that it has needed much...
>

I actually ended up using mdadm... I actually dislike it not using the
raidtab file at least as an option; I find the raidtab file to be good
documentation for what one had done. I would prefer for mkraid to get
fixed, if it hasn't already.

>
>>(Also note: the raid directory on kernel.org seems to be abandoned.
>>Unless someone speaks up I'm going to remove it.)
>>
>
>
> Again, I cannot comment on this directory, but would there be any
> change of getting somewhere on kernel.org to distribute mdadm??
>

Absolutely... send a GPG key to ftpadmin@kernel.org.

-hpa