On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 05:37:07PM -0400, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:34:07PM -0700, Jason Chu wrote: > > Alright. The boss would like us to start using the onboard Promise (PDC20265) chip for RAID1 now. I'm going to me moving it over this weekend. Before I do that I wanted to make a checklist to make sure I have all my facts straight. > > > > 1. Get kernel. I got 2.4.12, set it up and compiled it (with a similar config as the old 2.4.9 I had in there. I selected anything Promise related). > > > > 2. Make a backup (just in case I hose everything, and to help with the install). > > > > 3. Get that backup drive booting. > > > > 4. Set up grub to boot off the /dev/ataraid/d0 and set my root to /dev/ataraid/d0p<whatever> as well. > > > > 5. Shut down, unplug that backup drive, hit the power button. > > > > 6. Set up the array, and hope I get the right harddrive mirroring the other one. > > > > 7. Continue starting up and pray. > > > > Then fiddle, using the backup hard drive as a rescue system. > > > > Did I miss anything important? Like patching the kernel or some sort of userspace stuff? > > I'd really recommend using the normal linux software raid (md) for > production use for now.... ata software raid 1 doesn't do failure handling > yet... > Alright. What things did I miss for software raid? ;) I don't know how to convert ext2 partitions to the md partitions, is there a HOWTO or something? That, and I have to compile that support in, which isn't a big deal at all. -- Jason Chu jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.wondermill.com Code Sensei _.ooo-._ .OOOP _ '. dOOOO (_) \ OOOOOb | OOOOOOb. | OOOOOOOOb | YOO(_)OOO / 'OOOOOY _.' '""""''
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