lunar-install & raid-1

Kok, Auke sofar at foo-projects.org
Tue Jan 29 18:20:49 CET 2008


samuel wrote:
> luckily i kept a backup....
> http://merlin.ugent.be/lunar-install.patch
> 
> i had to use lsraid instead of mdadm cause mdadm isn't available...
> Not sure how this will work with a new glibc? I remember that one of
> the raid modules didn't work anymore...


I've already recoded the md stuff to use mdadm... raidtools is no longer needed as
a module.

Auke

> 
> 
> On Jan 29, 2008 12:36 AM, Kok, Auke <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
>> samuel wrote:
>>> new version of the patch... this one was actually tested... it's fugly
>>> but it handles raid-1 on /boot fine... I actually don't think we
>>> should support anything else ;)
>> where's the patch? :)
>>
>> your first patch looked already like an improvement... so this sounds good to me :)
>>
>>
>>> i must say i was hoping for easier code than this unreadable pos i
>>> have created... maybe you can find something simpler Auke...
>>>
>>> anyway the end result is that:
>>> if /boot is on a raid array, it will search which partitions are in
>>> that raid definitions and will append a line to lilo.conf so the MBR
>>> of the disks of those partitions of the raid array will each get lilo
>>> installed...
>>>
>>> http://wiki.lunar-linux.org/index.php/Installation:Software_Raid
>>>
>>> explanation at bottom
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 21, 2008 10:01 AM, samuel <samuel.verstraete at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Attached patch that fixes 2 issues:
>>>>
>>>> first
>>>> the part with the weird substition of ${$ARRAYNAME/md/}
>>>> I have basically no idea why it's written like that but it doesn't
>>>> work here (tried 2 installs on separate machines)
>>>> after making it ${ARRAYNAME/md/} it worked everytime
>>>>
>>>> second
>>>> Should add an extra line in the lilo.conf file in case $BOOT is on a
>>>> raid array... You might wanna read this code carefully cause i
>>>> honestly didn't test it...
>>>> I described this on the install to raid on the wiki
>>>>
>>>> mvg
>>>> Samuel
>>>>
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