Greetings,
I'm running kernel 2.2.12pre8 with one raid1 device. Autostarting is
not working for me--in fact starting the raid by hand isn't working
either. This bit me hard today--can someone tell me what I did wrong?
I followed the instructions in the new RAID howto, here is my raidtab:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 4096
persistent-superblock 0
device /dev/sdc2
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdd2
raid-disk 1
I've also marked the constitutent partitions with type 0xFD. When I do
a 'raidstart /dev/md0' I get:
(read) sdc2's sb offset: 8793024 [events: 3ade1754]
md: invalid raid superblock magic on sdc2
md: sdc2 has invalid sb, not importing!
could not import sdc2!
autostart sdc2 failed!
huh12?
/dev/md0: Invalid argument
Now I can get the RAID back with a 'mkraid --force /dev/md0' and all the
data is OK.
Other messages in my syslog seem to indicate the persistent superblocks
were not created when I created the array.
In the new RAID howto there is no indication of what the argument for
'persistent-superblock' should be for raid-1. The manpage for raidtab
is confusing also.
If the array does not have persistent superblocks is there a way I can
create them without destroying the data?
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