On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: > I've have noted something that some of you may find interest in. I have > tried fruitlessly to get raid1 working in with Debian woody on a 2.4.18 > kernel using raidtools2. I tried countless different means to copy the > root filesystem onto the raid filesystem. The best I managed to achieve > was about half a file system. All attempts to mount lilo using lilo -r > /mnt/md0 device resulted in failure because nodes in the dev directory > would never copy onto the mdX filesystem. I've built several boxes to boot off raid1 using Debian woody. Eg: drogon @ agate: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 235M 18M 205M 8% / /dev/md1 1.9G 905M 920M 50% /usr /dev/md2 35G 12G 21G 34% /var drogon @ agate: uname -a Linux agate 2.4.20 #1 Wed Jan 29 12:07:57 GMT 2003 i686 unknown drogon @ agate: cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/\s 3.0 \n \l Theres a good howto on it all at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.11 The trick to doing the copy is to use cpio (or something else that preserves device nodes rather than try to crete files out of them) Gordon - 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
