Pants Full of Unix

15:51 <gr> , how the fuck do I make a Linux md device rebuild?
15:51 <gr> It's a RAID-1 set.
15:51 <gr> And on boot it kicks out one of the disks.
15:51 <gr> Which is, fine, whatever, but, um, how do I say “I know this one disk is correct, just use it, please.”
15:51 <gr> ckraid doesn't exist any more…
15:55 <gr> Aha, raidhotadd
15:55 <gr> GENIUS
15:55 <gr> And that doesn't even show up with a `man -k raid`
15:56 <gr> Yeah, fuck you too, Linux.
15:56 <gr> [root@localhost network-scripts]# man raidhotadd
15:56 <gr> No manual entry for raidhotadd
15:56 <> gr: i just found it
15:56 <gr> One more name on the “first against the wall” list.
15:56 <gr> Fuckers.
15:56 <> i had forgotten, had to go look it up.
15:57 <gr> [root@localhost network-scripts]# raidhot
15:57 <gr> raidhotadd raidhotgenerateerror raidhotremove
15:57 <gr> (double-tabbing)
15:57 <gr> I so don't want to know why raidhotgenerateerror exists.
15:57 <gr> But whoever named it should be drug out in the street by a hook in his anus, kicked in the nose till its bloodied, then shot in the testicles.
15:57 <> it really ought to show up — “raid” is right there in the name. do you need to run makewhatis?
15:57 <gr> Um.
15:57 <gr> There's NO MAN PAGE for raidhotadd.
15:58 <gr> So, of course it's not in the apropos DB.
15:58 <gr> HATE HATE HATE.
15:58 <> agent-smith:~# man raidhotadd |head -1
15:58 <> raidhotadd(8) raidhotadd(8)
15:58 <gr> Not in RH 7.3.
15:58 <gr> Well.
15:59 <gr> This is a “[REDACTED--"embedded system" vendor] Device”.
15:59 <> this looks like it's just a bare-bones man page created to close the “this doesn't have a man page” bug that would have been opened.
15:59 <gr> So it's possible they removed it on purpose.
15:59 <gr> But I doubt it.
15:59 * gr is so shocked.
15:59 * gr wants to curb-stomp the fucker who called this “enterprise ready”.
15:59 <gr> [root@localhost network-scripts]# raidhotadd –help
15:59 <gr> usage: raidhotadd [--all] [--configfile] [--help] [--version] [-achv] </dev/md?>*
15:59 <gr> Yeah, guys, that helps.
16:00 * gr wonders, idly, what a c h and v do.
16:00 <gr> Oh, I see, single-letters of the GNU-long-style options.
16:00 <gr> Loverly.
16:00 <> raidhotadd [--all] [--configfile] [--help] [--version] [-achv] [RAID-ARRAY] [TARGET-DISK]
16:01 <> might be better just to consult the howto instead.
16:02 * gr did.
16:02 <gr> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5898
16:03 <gr> The first howto that pops up on google is out of date (it says use ckraid, which is “obsolete” now)
16:05 <> can bsd do software raid?
16:08 <> would it be safe to presume that you don't need help setting it up, just that nudge in the right direction to get it going after a disk failure?
16:10 <gr> Um.
16:10 * gr already started the recoveries.
16:10 <gr> (sorry if that wasn't clear)
16:10 <gr> Yes, BSD does software RAID, the same way it's been doing it, for, oh, eight to twelve years now.
16:10 <gr> (raidframe).
16:11 <gr> You know, unlike Linux.
16:11 <gr> Where, if it's two years old, it's apparently time to reimplement it.
16:11 <gr> (Firewall code, software RAID, libc, you know, whatever. Bonus points if it means a kernel A{B,P}I modification…)
16:14 <> heh. that would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.