Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-07 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:19 pm, Greg Folkert wrote: > Oh, yes my child... all you haav to do is remove udev for the time being > or recompile a kernel with raid* compiled in statically. Dear Greg, Thanks for your support on this problem and your careful and thoughtful advice! I am glad th

Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:27:50AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > raidtools2 == deprecated, mdadm == supercedes raidtools According to whom are raidtools deprecated, and when was this decision made? The last thing you want to do is hand mdadm to the clueless... it's bad enough handing them raidtool

Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:28 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:27 am, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage > > > array using raid5 with boot

Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:27 am, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage > > array using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk. > > [...] > > raidtools2 == deprecated

Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Thursday, 06 January 2005, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage >array >> using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk. >> >[...] > >raidtools2

Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage array > using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk. > [...] raidtools2 == deprecated, mdadm == supercedes raidtools Hope that helps. I have a machine th

confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage array using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk. I have read the software raid howto and he says to use "mdadm" because it is newer, more unified, (levitates, leaps over a building in a single bound), but then