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| author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 1998-03-17 22:05:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 1998-03-17 22:05:47 +0000 |
| commit | 27cfca1ec98e91261b1a5355d10a8996464b63af (patch) | |
| tree | 8e895a53e372fa682b4c0a585b9377d67ed70d0e /Documentation/md.txt | |
| parent | 6a76fb7214c477ccf6582bd79c5b4ccc4f9c41b1 (diff) | |
Look Ma' what I found on my harddisk ...
o New faster syscalls for 2.1.x, too
o Upgrade to 2.1.89.
Don't try to run this. It's flaky as hell. But feel free to debug ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0107ca5d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/md.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Tools that manage md devices can be found at sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr +in public/Linux/md035.tar.gz. + + Marc ZYNGIER <zyngier@ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr> + +-- + +You can boot (if you selected boot support in the configuration) with your md +device with the following kernel command line: + +md=<md device no.>,<raid level>,<chunk size factor>,<fault level>,dev0,dev1,...,devn + +md device no. = the number of the md device ... + 0 means md0, + 1 md1, + 2 md2, + 3 md3, + 4 md4 + +raid level = -1 linear mode + 0 striped mode + other modes are currently unsupported. + +chunk size factor = (raid-0 and raid-1 only) + Set the chunk size as PAGE_SIZE << n. + +fault level = (raid-1 only) + Set the maximum fault number as n. + Currently unsupported due to lack of boot support for raid1. + +dev0-devn: e.g. /dev/hda1,/dev/hdc1,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1 + +my loadlin line looks like this: + +e:\loadlin\loadlin e:\zimage root=/dev/md0 md=0,0,4,0,/dev/hdb2,/dev/hdc3 ro + + Harald Hoyer <HarryH@Royal.Net> |