Re: Raid woes

1999-03-22 Thread Andrew Doane
Hi folks. I'm having a bit of trouble, and was wondering if I could get some help. [snip] # cat /etc/raidtab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level linear nr-raid-disks 3 persistent-superblock 1 [snip] I don't think linear supports

RE: Raid woes

1999-03-22 Thread Dickinson, Ross
I had thought about that, but I tried it without (persistent-superblock 0) and still get the same results. :^/ -Ross -Original Message- From: Andrew Doane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Raid

Re: Raid woes

1999-03-22 Thread Peter Hunter
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 12:12:48PM -0800, Dickinson, Ross wrote: I had thought about that, but I tried it without (persistent-superblock 0) and still get the same results. :^/ -Ross You seem to be using a recent raidtools. Did you apply the corresponding kernel patch? What gets logged

Re: Raid woes

1999-03-22 Thread Michael Milligan
Hi folks. I'm having a bit of trouble, and was wondering if I could get some help. -The Short Version I'm getting: # raidstart /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Invalid argument The RAID stuff is compiled into the kernel, not as modules. /proc/mdstat shows all inactive, but mkraid will not work

Re: Raid woes

1999-03-22 Thread Ross Dickinson
My apologies for not specifying - I am using the raid0145-19990309 patch and raidtools-19990309. I don't remember if there were two different patches (for 2.0.36 and 2.2.3) when I first downloaded it, so I tried again: I downloaded a fresh copy of 2.2.3 from ftp.us.kernel.org, and also grabbed

Problems with array

1999-03-22 Thread Paul Hancock
I'm probably doing something obviously wrong, but I am unable to get a RAID array using other RAID arrays working. I have created md1, which is a RAID-1 array using sdb2 and sdc2, and md2, which is a RAID-5 array using sda6, sdb1, sdc2. All partitions are the same size. md3 is a linear array,

Re: Raid woes (solved!)

1999-03-22 Thread Ross Dickinson
OK, more info: # mkraid /dev/md0 handling MD device /dev/md0 analyzing super-block disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 4257193kB, raid superblock at 4257088kB disk 1: /dev/sdc1, 4257193kB, raid superblock at 4257088kB disk 2: /dev/sdd1, 4192933kB, raid superblock at 4192832kB /dev/md0: Invalid argument leaves