On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:24 +0100, Alexandra Jacquot wrote:
My box is installed there on two sata disk: [root@jack ~]# dmraid -r /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_egeafiab", mirror, ok, 390721966 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_egeafiab", mirror, ok, 390721966 sectors, data@ 0
Ok, so this is a dmraid which is BIOS assisted, and so we'd treat it as 1 disk...
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What do you mean in "2)"? I have partition tables on the raid (lvm stuff) _and_ raid on partitions..
#2 in my caveats is specifically about bios-supported raid. Putting perfectly normal logical volumes or software raids on top of dmraid devices should work fine.
Is this supported, am I failing in the 6) category? I was planning a reinstall but cannot afford loosing datavg
If you can't afford to lose data, rawhide isn't for you.
Peter Jones wrote:
Ok, so this is a dmraid which is BIOS assisted, and so we'd treat it as 1 disk...
Have you got *any* feedback on this one? I have a machine with intel ICH7R onboard and 2xSATA drives which I *could* re-format and treat as fake raid if you've had zero feedback elsewhere. I'm not convinced that I'd want to keep it that way though ...
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 00:01 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
Peter Jones wrote:
Ok, so this is a dmraid which is BIOS assisted, and so we'd treat it as 1 disk...
Have you got *any* feedback on this one? I have a machine with intel ICH7R onboard and 2xSATA drives which I *could* re-format and treat as fake raid if you've had zero feedback elsewhere. I'm not convinced that I'd want to keep it that way though ...
So far, just boxes I've tried myself.
Peter Jones wrote:
So far, just boxes I've tried myself.
Will createrepo do a reasonable job of converting my existing /var/cache/yum tree into a format that can be burnt to DVD, or served by http from another machine? That would save me many hours worth of re-downloading ...
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:44 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
Peter Jones wrote:
So far, just boxes I've tried myself.
Will createrepo do a reasonable job of converting my existing /var/cache/yum tree into a format that can be burnt to DVD, or served by http from another machine? That would save me many hours worth of re-downloading ...
I'm not entirely sure what you've got to do to go from just a package tree to an installable tree right now, since all that has changed so much recently. One thing that should pretty much always work is copying those files to another directory and using rsync to build a tree from one of the mirrors. That'll save you from having to redownload packages that haven't changed since you last downloaded them.