Andree's Debian & General Musings

Sadly, RAID support in Mondo Rescue on Debian has been broken since the raidtools2 package was removed just before the sarge release.

I have finally started on getting things to work with mdadm (whilst retaining raidtools2 support to get this accepted upstream) and sent an initial patch to bug #325877.

Looks like it generally works, i.e. I have successfully restored a sid amd64 system with a RAID1 and a RAID0 array without manual intervention. However, there are some limitations that I'd like to overcome:

• hard-coded chunk size
• RAID5 parity algorithm is ignored
• spare devices are ignored

The main thing is inclusion in upstream, so I am now waiting for Bruno's verdict on the general approach...