I have faithfully followed all the directions in the HOWTO at
ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/... However, I am having no luck
building an MD device. Everything seems fine except mkraid consistently
aborts with no feedback. (None that is useful to me anyway.)
I'm running a patched 2.2.3 kernel (is there a way to tell if I patched it
successfully?)and using v 0.90 of the raidtools.
Here's the output of mkraid:
[root@sql /root]# mkraid /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/hda6, 1799248kB, raid superblock at 1799168kB
disk 1: /dev/hdc6, 1810588kB, raid superblock at 1810496kB
mkraid: aborted
[root@sql /root]#
Here's what /proc/mdstat looks like:
[root@sql /root]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
[root@sql /root]#
My /etc/raidtab looks like this:
# Sample raid-1 configuration (modified to our needs-JSW)
# /dev/hdx6 = /var
#
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 4
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/hda6
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdc6
raid-disk 1
#
#
# /dev/hdx5 = /home
#
raiddev /dev/md1
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 4
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/hda5
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdc5
raid-disk 1
#
#
# /dev/hdx3 = /usr
#
raiddev /dev/md2
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 4
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/hda3
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdc3
raid-disk 1
