Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 05:47:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 05:47:14 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:35346 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 05:45:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3DC7A2B1.3050402@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 02:51:29 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Brown CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reconfiguring one SW-RAID when other RAIDs are running References: <3DC762FC.8070007@zytor.com> <15815.32292.689774.895238@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1505 Lines: 46 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/