mdadm and raidtools

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Wed Jan 14 19:24:02 UTC 2004


Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> With mdadm support in initscripts (and soon initrd, I hope), it would
> not be terribly difficult to do this in Fedora.  Add in Eric Biederman's
> kexec(), and even the reboot is quick.  Extra credit if one tests it first
> with UML or Vserver(*). :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
>     Bill Rugolsky
> 
> (*) Vserver is useful for other reasons related to package dependencies,
>     multiple package installation (stable+testing on one box),
>     and configuration management. It remains to be seen whether
>     SELinux + CKRM + multi-mount/private-namespaces will meet those needs.
> 
> 

www.fedora.us is vserver based, with various vservers ranging from RH7.3 
through FC1 doing various jobs.  In november one of the disks failed, 
and swapping it was very little problem.  mdadm with minor modifications 
to rc.sysinit made it very easy.

Warren





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