> Things have slowed a little in that department at the moment as my main test > hard disk underwent a > rapid deceleration test from a table to a tiled floor and has somewhat ceased > to function. (Don't > try this one at home kids) > > Prior to that I had got as far as intermittently creating raid-6 volumes that > worked (the rest of > the time the blocks were all intact but in the wrong order!) and kludging it > to work with raid-5 > volumes over 2TB. (I did manage to reconfigure a 1.6TB array to be a 2.1TB > array with no data loss). > > I have a new set of test drives in my purchase queue, but have not quite got > that far yet. > > The raidtools-1.00.3.tar.gz package is the one I have been working with and > seems to be pretty > stable on anything under 2TB. I certainly did not hit any major flaws while > working with it as is. > > I'm currently thinking about how to do it while removing the dependency on > raidtools and moving to a > mdadm like setup, but have not got far down that path. > > If you want to use raidreconf and you created your arrays with mdadm then use > lsraid to generate a > suitable raidtab, edit that to create the new one and have at it. > On <2TB I found it pretty solid. So the current version of raidreconf is included with raidtools-1.00.3.tar.gz? Looking at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raidtools/, I find that archive is dated 15 Jan 2003. Is that the version you're using, or have you improved/fixed/patched raidreconf since then? Thanks, -- Nick Maynard nick.maynard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
