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> [ Friday, March 3, 2000 ] Steve Terrell wrote:
> > I have been using raid1 0.090-5 (kernel 2.2.14 w/ raid patch) on a
> > couple of RedHat 6.1 boxes for several weeks with good results.
> > Naturally, when I installed it on a production system, I ran into
> > problems. Raid1 arrays work fine - after the machine (Redhat 6.0 kernel
> > 2.2.14 w/patch) is up and running. However, autorun does not work even
> > though autodetect was compiled and the partitions are type fd.
> >
> > Anyone got a clue?
>
> Did you enable autodetection?
>
> paste the "autorun" section of the bootup log.
>
> James
>
autodetecting RAID arrays
(read) sdb1's sb offset: 4441856 [events: 00000005]
(read) sdc1's sb offset: 8883840 [events: 00000001]
(read) sdd1's sb offset: 4441856 [events: 00000005]
(read) sde1's sb offset: 8883840 [events: 00000001]
autorun ...
considering sde1 ...
adding sde1 ...
adding sdc1 ...
created md1
bind<sdc1,1>
bind<sde1,2>
running: <sde1><sdc1>
now!
sde1's event counter: 00000001
sdc1's event counter: 00000001
md: md1: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction
request_module[md-personality-3]: Root fs not mounted
do_md_run() returned -22
unbind<sde1,1>
export_rdev(sde1)
unbind<sdc1,0>
export_rdev(sdc1)
md1 stopped.
considering sdd1 ...
adding sdd1 ...
adding sdb1 ...
created md0
bind<sdb1,1>
bind<sdd1,2>
running: <sdd1><sdb1>
now!
sdd1's event counter: 00000005
sdb1's event counter: 00000005
md: md0: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction
request_module[md-personality-3]: Root fs not mounted
do_md_run() returned -22
unbind<sdd1,1>
export_rdev(sdd1)
unbind<sdb1,0>
export_rdev(sdb1)
md0 stopped.
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused memory: 52k freed
Adding Swap: 257032k swap-space (priority -1)
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The above is typical on all systems on which I have been using
raid. What is missing is the following...which is what I get when running
raidstart on the nonworking machine or on startup on a machine on
which autorun works correctly.
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(read) sdb1's sb offset: 4441856 [events: 00000007]
(read) sdd1's sb offset: 4441856 [events: 00000007]
autorun ...
considering sdd1 ...
adding sdd1 ...
adding sdb1 ...
created md0
bind<sdb1,1>
bind<sdd1,2>
running: <sdd1><sdb1> now!
sdd1's event counter: 00000007
sdb1's event counter: 00000007
md0: max total readahead window set to 128k
md0: 1 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 128k
raid1: device sdd1 operational as mirror 1
raid1: device sdb1 operational as mirror 0
(checking disk 0)
(really checking disk 0)
(checking disk 1)
(really checking disk 1)
(checking disk 2)
(checking disk 3)
(checking disk 4)
(checking disk 5)
(checking disk 6)
(checking disk 7)
(checking disk 8)
(checking disk 9)
(checking disk 10)
(checking disk 11)
raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
md: updating md0 RAID superblock on device
sdd1 [events: 00000008](write) sdd1's sb offset:4441856
sdb1 [events: 00000008](write) sdb1's sb offset:4441856
.
... autorun DONE.
(read) sdc1's sb offset: 8883840 [events: 00000003]
(read) sde1's sb offset: 8883840 [events: 00000003]
autorun ...
considering sde1 ...
adding sde1 ...
adding sdc1 ...
created md1
bind<sdc1,1>
bind<sde1,2>
running: <sde1><sdc1> now!
sde1's event counter: 00000003
sdc1's event counter: 00000003
md1: max total readahead window set to 128k
md1: 1 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 128k
raid1: device sde1 operational as mirror 1
raid1: device sdc1 operational as mirror 0
(checking disk 0)
(really checking disk 0)
(checking disk 1)
(really checking disk 1)
(checking disk 2)
(checking disk 3)
(checking disk 4)
(checking disk 5)
(checking disk 6)
(checking disk 7)
(checking disk 8)
(checking disk 9)
(checking disk 10)
(checking disk 11)
raid1: raid set md1 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
md: updating md1 RAID superblock on device
sde1 [events: 00000004](write) sde1's sb offset:8883840
sdc1 [events: 00000004](write) sdc1's sb offset:8883840
.
... autorun DONE.
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Steve Terrell
Sr. Network Administrator
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
