James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote : > Peter Humphrey writes: > > > > This time I tried "device=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3" in case that was the proper > > syntax, but it made no discernible difference - the final message from the > > kernel panic was the same "VFS: Unable to mount roofs on > > unknown-block(8,3)". > > > Hello Peter, > > As many know, I have made many failed attempts to get btrfs in raid 1 > working > on gentoo, and have to this date, failed. > > > OpenSuse-13.2 seems to solve this, but not in raid-1 config. I have read > that you can easily add the second disk after install and change the config > to raid-1. I'm working on this, but other things limit my time atm. > > > Using YaST to config the btrfs under openSuse is a breeze. Once I have ti > all fixed I can just copy the necessary files (fstab etc) to another system > and install gentoo of top of those disks. > > > Others use calculate linux or sabayon similarly and are quite happy with > the results. I am hope that somebody figures this out and sees to it that > the information makes it to the gentoo wiki, for all to benefit from robust > usage of btrfs in raid-1. > > > Sorry, that I could not be of more help.
No, that's interesting - thanks. I've just started building it again; if this fails too I'll follow your suggestion. (Apologies if the format is bad; I'm using web mail.)
