I recently install RH 6.0 and added two 36GB Maxtor drives which I
wanted to concatenate using the MD driver and raditools-0.90. I'm using
the stock kernel shipped with RH6.0 2.2.5-15smp. I read the
Software-RAID.HOWTO.txt doc and set up my /etc/raidtab as follows (for
test purposes):
raiddev /dev/md1
raid-level linear
nr-raid-disks 2
persistent-superblock 0
device /dev/hdb1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdb2
raid-disk 1
hdb has two partitions with 17GB in hdb1 and 17GB in hdb2
I loaded the linear module and tried:
# mkraid /dev/md1
handling MD device /dev/md1
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/hdb1, 17832118kB, raid superblock at 17832000kB
disk 1: /dev/hdb2, 17840182kB, raid superblock at 17840064kB
/dev/md1: Invalid argument
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear]
read_ahead not set
unused devices: <none>
# raidstart -a
/dev/md1: Invalid argument
I'm obviously missing some key bit of understanding. I'd appreciate it
if some expert would provide some guidance on what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks
John
