On 2004.02.27 02:17, Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday February 27, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: > > > > Right. I missed a bit in the patch. > > (I assume you are still wanting to boot off /dev/sda until you copy > > the data into /dev/md/d0p* - then you will use root=/dev/md_d0p1) > > Sorry, that patch was wrong. > This one, ontop of the original patch, works for me (I finally got > around to testing it). > > > ----------- Diffstat output ------------ > ./drivers/md/md.c | 2 +- > ./init/do_mounts_md.c | 9 ++++++++- > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ ./drivers/md/md.c > diff ./init/do_mounts_md.c~current~ ./init/do_mounts_md.c I've tested this a lot as well, and it works fine. On my supermicro 1U test machine I can now pull out one of the two disks, and the machine still boots. I can even take out disk2, insert disk1 in the slot for disk2 and it still boots. Which is pretty cool ;) I didn't see this in -rc2-mm1 yet - is this going to be submitted to -mm soon ? Mike. - 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
