> So now I have been able to test the new RAID code, but it still fails in the
> same way as the old code from 2.2.13. Take a look at this:
Well, I did some more testing, and the problem seems to be in mkdosfs, not
the RAID code. (D'oh!) mkdosfs won't work on a loopback device, so I assume
that
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 10:51:04PM +, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Have i got this right, your trying to make raid on a loopback device
> (dev 07:00 and 07:01)
>
> I didnt know you could do that, has anyone else dont this?
Yes, that's what I'm trying to do... /dev/loop0 + /dev/loop1 = /dev/md0
It
Have i got this right, your trying to make raid on a loopback device
(dev 07:00 and 07:01)
I didnt know you could do that, has anyone else dont this?
Anyay, sorry, but ho ideas from me, hope you get it working though.
Glenn McGrath
Patrik Rådman wrote:
>
> > Besides Tomas' suggestion (which
> Besides Tomas' suggestion (which sounds likely), you need a chunk-size line,
> even with linear-raid.
Ah! I added "chunk-size 4" to the raidtab, and now I can run mkraid. I think
the HOWTO should be updated, the example for linear there doesn't have
chunk-size...
So now I have been able to tes
> However, I can't create /dev/md0 with the new raidtools... Can anyone spot
> any errors here?
>
> # cat ./raidtab
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-levellinear
> nr-raid-disks 2
> persistent-superblock 1
> device/dev/loop0
> raid-d
Patrik Rådman wrote:
>
> /dev/md0: Invalid argument
> #
>
> Looking at an strace, this seems to be the problem:
>
> open("/dev/md0", O_RDWR)= 4
> ioctl(4, 0x400c0930, 0xb61c)= -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
Are you sure you're running the patched kernel? You usually
