Hello,
I just try to install a raid5 on 4 disks. The system running is a SuSE
6.3 which has kernelpatches but seems to use the older mdadd,
mdrun,.. commands in the init scripts.
They Do have raidtools including mkraid and raidstart/stop, but when I
try to do a mkraid I get:
mkraid --really-force /dev/md0
DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md0 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
Yesterday it at least listed the partitions (1GB each) but still
aborted.
mdstat doesn't give *me* a clue :-/
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [2 raid0] [4 raid5] <-- raid5 is a module which I insmod
read_ahead 128 sectors
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
there are *no* syslog messages at all.
/etc/raidtab is:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 4
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 32
persistent-superblock 0
device /dev/sda5
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb6
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sdc2
raid-disk 2
device /dev/sdd1
raid-disk 3
# mkraid --version
mkraid version 0.90.0
I guess that my kernel patches do not match the raidtools I'm trying to
use, but the only pointer in my raidtools I can find is:
ftp://ftp.fi.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/[alpha]
which seem to be all August 1999 or older.
Where could I get more recent versions and what raidtools would I
combine with my 2.2.13 kernel (I could upgrade to the newer ones like
2.2.17 if that would help, but ehich raidtool version should I take
with that?).
Thanks a lot,
Karl-Heinz
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Karl-Heinz Herrmann
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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