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sambo99

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Registered: 2008-04-17

Posts: 11

dmraid with raid5 on 2.6.24

Hi there,

I have a raid 5 array on a rocket raid 2600, I also have ICh9 so I can run dmraid. Im really not fussed about performance too much so Im happy to run fake raid.

I have found the rocket raid drivers under linux to be pretty unreliable (they just released a new version that also give me nothing but trouble, it does not work on 2.6.24 even though it says it does)

So Im kind of happy to move away from rocket raid. Anyway for the question, has anyone had success with dmraid and raid 5 under 2.6.24? Last time I tried I got a complaint about a missing raid45 function in the kernel or something (it has been renamed to raid456)

Thanks
Sam

sambo99

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Registered: 2008-04-17

Posts: 11

Re: dmraid with raid5 on 2.6.24

Looks like there is a kernel patch, http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dm/dm-raid45/

I'll try it out and see how i go