Hello Heinz, I test dmraid as much as possible on Promise Fasttrak and Intel Software Raid. As it seems to me sometimes dmraid deletes the metadata of the second disk on the Promise Fasttrak (mirrorset). Did you fixed the make 1.80 compile error (compile endless loop) Greets and Best regards Mit freundlichen Grüßen _______________________ Wayne Pignone Dresser Europe GmbH Organisation / Datenverarbeitung Michael Thonke Grimsehlstrasse 44 37574 Einbeck * Germany Telefon +49 55 61- 794-168 Telefax +49 55 61- 794-224 < mailto:MThonke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> < http://www.wayne-europe.com/> _______________________ -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]Im Auftrag von Heinz Mauelshagen Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. August 2004 21:06 An: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx Betreff: [dm-devel] *** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0-rc3 *** *** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0-rc3 *** dmraid 1.0.0-rc3 is available at http://people.redhat.com:/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ in source, source rpm and i386 rpm. dmraid (Device-Mapper Raid tool) discovers, [de]activates and displays properties of software RAID sets (ie. ATARAID) and contained DOS partitions using the device-mapper runtime of the 2.6 kernel. The following ATARAID types are supported on Linux 2.6: Highpoint HPT37X Highpoint HPT45X Intel Software RAID Promise FastTrack Silicon Image Medley This ATARAID type is only basically supported in this version (I need better metadata format specs; please help): LSI Logic MegaRAID Please provide insight to support those metadata formats completely. Thanks. See files README and CHANGELOG, which come with the source tarball for prerequisites to run this software, further instructions on installing and using dmraid! CHANGELOG is contained below for your convenience as well. Call for testers: ----------------- I need testers with the above ATARAID types, to check that the mapping created by this tool is correct (see options "-t -ay") and access to the ATARAID data is proper. You can activate your ATARAID sets without danger of overwriting your metadata, because dmraid accesses it read-only unless you use option -E with -r in order to erase ATARAID metadata (see 'man dmraid')! This is a release candidate version so you want to have backups of your valuable data *and* you want to test accessing your data read-only first in order to make sure that the mapping is correct before you go for read-write access. The author is reachable at <Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx>. For test results, mapping information, discussions, questions, patches, enhancement requests and the like, please subscribe and mail to <ataraid@xxxxxxxxxx>. -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- CHANGELOG: --------- Changelog from dmraid 1.0.0-rc2 to 1.0.0-rc3 2004.08.18 FIXES: ------ o HPT37X mapping on first disk of set o dietlibc sscanf() use prevented activation o le*_to_cpu() for certain glibc environments (Luca Berra) o sysfs discovery (Luca Berra) o permissions to write on binary, which is needed by newer strip versions (Luca Berra) o SCSI serial number string length bug o valgrinded memory leaks o updated design document o comments FEATURES: --------- o added basic support for activation of LSI Logic MegaRAID/MegaIDE; more reengineering of the metadata needed! o root check using certain options (eg, activation of RAID sets) o implemented locking abstraction o implemented writing device metadata offsets with "-r[D/E]" for ease of manual restore o file based locking to avoid parallel tool runs competing with each other for the same resources o streamlined library context o implemented access functions for library context o streamlined RAID set consistency checks o implemented log function and removed macros to shrink binary size further o removed superfluous disk geometry code o cleaned up metadata.c collapsing free_*() functions o slimmed down minimal binary (configure option DMRAID_MINI for early boot environment) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =- -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel