Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Nov 2002 02:51:29 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Reconfiguring one SW-RAID when other RAIDs are running |
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Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday November 4, hpa@zytor.com wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I'm trying to re-create a RAID while leaving the other RAIDs -- >>including the root filesystem -- running, but mkraid refuses to run: >> >>hera 1 # mkraid /dev/md2 >>/dev/md0: array is active -- run raidstop first. >>mkraid: aborted. >>(In addition to the above messages, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat as well >> for potential clues.) > > > I cannot offer any help on using mkraid, except to avoid it :-( > mdadm is (I believe and others agree) much easier to use. > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ > > It is definately being maintained, not that it has needed much... >
I actually ended up using mdadm... I actually dislike it not using the raidtab file at least as an option; I find the raidtab file to be good documentation for what one had done. I would prefer for mkraid to get fixed, if it hasn't already.
> >>(Also note: the raid directory on kernel.org seems to be abandoned. >>Unless someone speaks up I'm going to remove it.) >> > > > Again, I cannot comment on this directory, but would there be any > change of getting somewhere on kernel.org to distribute mdadm?? >
Absolutely... send a GPG key to ftpadmin@kernel.org.
-hpa
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