Re: software raid - fun

2003-12-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lucas On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > I just said the hell with mkinitrd, as you know. yup.. i avoid initrd as much as possible to > If you have directions on using initrd to work with raid, LET ME KNOW. > If I don't have to recompile the kernel, then great! mkinitrd does no

Re: software raid - fun

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: > > that's the 1st of the dozen magic test... > - power off and disconnect a disks and try for hands off reboot > after having written a 2-4GB file is my test for resyncing > >> Even if you completelly clear a partition but don't format it you can >> still boot from hda

Re: software raid - fun

2003-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lucas On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > no, you don't have to lose data, I've done remote upgrades switching from > non-raid to raid. yes... as long as one is "careful" > Your way has more guarantee you won't lose data, and they can have a > backup disk on their system, which i