On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Am Samstag, 16. September 2006 19:26 schrieb Bill Davidsen: > > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > >Is anyone here who runs a soft raid on Slackware? > > >Out of the box there are no raid scripts, the ones I made myself seem a > > > little rawish, barely more than mdadm --assemble/--stop. > > > > I'm pretty much off Slack now, but I have run, the scripts you describe > > are about 2/3 of what you need, see the thread(s) here about monitoring. > > mdadm doesn't need a lot of direction... > > What's the remaining third? > I fumbled it into rc.S and rc.6, reason why I ask is that array degraded about > 6 times in the few months I run it and I can't figure why. Only thing I know > is that it degrades somewhere in the reboot process, so I suspect it might > not properly shutdown. Have you tried simply setting the partition types to 0xFD and relying on the kernel auto-detect? I read here that there seems to be some resistance to this method though, but I've been using it for many years without any issues - however I'm not doing any thing "clever" like LVM or RAID on RAID (RAID1+0, etc.) Gordon - 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
