After reading the list archives concerning Sparcs/Raid, I have a few questions... As background, I am setting up a SparcStation 20 (2 processors, SMP kernel) to use 4 9GB disks in a RAID-5 array (external SCSI box). The system has a 500 MB internal disk available as well. I would prefer that the entire file system be on the RAID array rather than only specific directories. I will be using Debian Potato (2.2 kernel by default). I have seen mention several times that the 2.4 kernel is preferred over the 2.2 kernel, however I have also heard tell of troubles with the 2.4 kernel and SMP systems...anyone using Raid on a Sparc with a SMP 2.4 kernel? I plan on booting to the raid array, however, I obviously cannot install the system directly to a raid array as I at the very least have to patch the 2.2 kernel. So what is the best way to get the system transfered over to the RAID array? Install the system normally, then copy it over in the manner one would for an NFS-ROOT system, or is there some better way? Once I have the system installed to the array (however it gets done), what is the best way to boot? I've seen notes on passing 'md=...' to the boot sequence, but that was always for RAID-0 or RAID-1...this still work for RAID-5 (i.e. md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1)? Thanks for any help! --David - 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
