On 7 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone has worked with the linear RAID-0 setups for
> creating large partitions; I've created the following:
>
> /etc/raidtab:
>
> raiddev /dev/md0
>
> raid-level 0
> persistent-superblock 1
> chunk-size 16
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
>
> device /dev/hda3
> raid-disk 0
>
> device /dev/hdb1
> raid-disk 1
>
> ...after blowing out the partitions for /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdb1 and
> formatting them with /sbin/mkfs.ext3, then doing the mkraid /dev/md0 and
> mounting it, next reboot (which I fixed lilo finally) APPEARED to detect
> and configure the RAID, but when I tried to mount it, it choked and
> puked; haven't rebooted since as I need the partition to copy stuff
> around for customers - but is this going to happen again on the next
> reboot? I ended up having to recreate the RAID, format the RAID and then
> mount it...which I don't want to have to write a script for, I thought
> it was supposed to mount automagically...
>
The problem was you didn't format the raid device. It looks like you did
this properly the second time by formatting the raid device instead of the
individual disks.
-Nate
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