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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:15:32 +1100
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Subject: Re: Reconfiguring one SW-RAID when other RAIDs are running
In-Reply-To: message from H. Peter Anvin on Monday November 4
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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...

> 
> (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??

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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