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| author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2000-06-19 22:45:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2000-06-19 22:45:37 +0000 |
| commit | 6d403070f28cd44860fdb3a53be5da0275c65cf4 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d0e7fe7b5fb7568d19e11d7d862b77a866ce081 /Documentation/md.txt | |
| parent | ecf1bf5f6c2e668d03b0a9fb026db7aa41e292e1 (diff) | |
Merge with 2.4.0-test1-ac21 + pile of MIPS cleanups to make merging
possible. Chainsawed RM200 kernel to compile again. Jazz machine
status unknown.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/md.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/md.txt | 25 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt index 0107ca5d8..7e894fd97 100644 --- a/Documentation/md.txt +++ b/Documentation/md.txt @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@ -Tools that manage md devices can be found at sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr -in public/Linux/md035.tar.gz. +Tools that manage md devices can be found at + http://www.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/.... - 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: +device with the following kernel command lines: -md=<md device no.>,<raid level>,<chunk size factor>,<fault level>,dev0,dev1,...,devn +for old raid arrays without persistant superblocks: + md=<md device no.>,<raid level>,<chunk size factor>,<fault level>,dev0,dev1,...,devn +for raid arrays with persistant superblocks + md=<md device no.>,dev0,dev1,...,devn + md device no. = the number of the md device ... 0 means md0, 1 md1, @@ -19,19 +21,16 @@ md device no. = the number of the md device ... raid level = -1 linear mode 0 striped mode - other modes are currently unsupported. + other modes are only supported with persistant super blocks chunk size factor = (raid-0 and raid-1 only) - Set the chunk size as PAGE_SIZE << n. + Set the chunk size as 4k << n. -fault level = (raid-1 only) - Set the maximum fault number as n. - Currently unsupported due to lack of boot support for raid1. +fault level = totally ignored dev0-devn: e.g. /dev/hda1,/dev/hdc1,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1 -my loadlin line looks like this: +A possible loadlin line (Harald Hoyer <HarryH@Royal.Net>) 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> |