On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:53:07 -0400, James Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>So far so good.
>Looks fine
>Also good.
>Being a non-primary partition shouldn't be a problem
No, that isn't a problem. I have two RAID5 arrays running with
non-primary partitions included (since I never use primary partitions
as a general rule, they're a nuisance)
>The only time I've been device too small was when I was accessing
>a device that didn't have a proper /dev entry. the fdisk -l probably
>only needed /dev/hda to be valid, but for the mkraid to succeed
>/dev/hda7 will need to be valid (3,7). Not likely, but that's the
>only time I saw it.
|haber@gwen[10/61]:~$ ls -al /dev/hda*
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda1
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 10 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda10
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 11 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda11
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 12 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda12
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 13 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda13
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 14 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda14
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 15 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda15
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 16 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda16
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 17 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda17
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 18 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda18
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 19 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda19
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda2
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 20 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda20
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 3 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda3
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 4 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda4
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda5
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 6 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda6
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 7 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda7
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 8 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda8
|brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 9 May 5 23:47 /dev/hda9
|haber@gwen[11/62]:~$
I can also offer an strace of the mkraid process which has only 59
lines:
|618 execve("/sbin/mkraid", ["mkraid", "/dev/md0"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0
|618 brk(0) = 0x804fdcc
|618 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or director
|618 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 4
|618 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3050, ...}) = 0
|618 old_mmap(NULL, 3050, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x40014000
|618 close(4) = 0
|618 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 4
|618 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=888596, ...}) = 0
|618 read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\244\213"..., 4096
|618 old_mmap(NULL, 902972, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x4001500
|618 mprotect(0x400ea000, 30524, PROT_NONE) = 0
|618 old_mmap(0x400ea000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 4
|618 old_mmap(0x400ee000, 14140, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MA
|618 close(4) = 0
|618 munmap(0x40014000, 3050) = 0
|618 personality(PER_LINUX) = 0
|618 getpid() = 618
|618 brk(0) = 0x804fdcc
|618 brk(0x804fefc) = 0x804fefc
|618 brk(0x8050000) = 0x8050000
|618 open("/dev/md0", O_RDONLY) = 4
|618 ioctl(4, 0x800c0910, 0x804fdb8) = 0
|618 close(4) = 0
|618 open("/etc/raidtab", O_RDONLY) = 4
|618 time(NULL) = 963839670
|618 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=273, ...}) = 0
|618 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
|618 read(4, "raiddev /dev/md0\n raid-le"..., 4096) = 273
|618 brk(0x8051000) = 0x8051000
|618 read(4, "", 4096) = 0
|618 open("/dev/md0", O_RDONLY) = 5
|618 ioctl(5, 0x800c0910, 0xbffff950) = 0
|618 close(5) = 0
|618 open("/proc/mdstat", O_RDONLY) = 5
|618 fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
|618 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
|618 read(5, "Personalities : \nread_ahead not "..., 1024) = 59
|618 read(5, "", 1024) = 0
|618 close(5) = 0
|618 munmap(0x400f2000, 4096) = 0
|618 stat("/dev/md0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(9, 0), ...}) = 0
|618 fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
|618 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
|618 ioctl(1, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
|618 write(1, "handling MD device /dev/md0\n", 28) = 28
|618 write(1, "analyzing super-block\n", 22) = 22
|618 time(NULL) = 963839670
|618 stat("/dev/hda7", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(3, 7), ...}) = 0
|618 stat("/dev/hdb7", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(3, 71), ...}) = 0
|618 open("/dev/hda7", O_RDWR) = 5
|618 ioctl(5, BLKGETSIZE, 0xbffff6c0) = 0
|618 write(2, "/dev/hda7: device too small (0kB"..., 34) = 34
|618 close(5) = 0
|618 write(2, "mkraid: aborted, see the syslog "..., 70) = 70
|618 close(4) = 0
|618 munmap(0x40014000, 4096) = 0
|618 munmap(0x400f2000, 4096) = 0
|618 _exit(1) = ?
Any more ideas?
Greetings
Marc
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