Hi Gordon, I tries every trick under the sun, cpio, cp -ax, tar, rsync... As soon as I updated to testing all files copied on the same drive same partition, same raidtab etc. etc. All the files copied without failure, including symlinks, which noteably failed with the previous 15 frustrating attempts. Hmmm.... Not sure where the problems came from, did you format your /mdx using mke2fs? > 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
