On Saturday March 2, l-berland@northwestern.edu wrote: > Brand new just-compiled 2.2.20 kernel, including md, but mkraid never ever > works. > > /etc/raidtab: > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level linear > nr-raid-disks 2 > chunk-size 32 > persistent-superblock 1 > device /dev/hdd1 > raid-disk 0 > device /dev/sdb1 > raid-disk 1 2.2.20 needs patches for mkraid (and persistent-superblock) to work. A copy if the patch is at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/raid-2.2.20/raid-2.2.20.patch but I would strongly recommend 2.4.18 if that is at all an option. NeilBrown > > complete output of mkraid: > handling MD device /dev/md0 > analyzing super-block > disk 0: /dev/hdd1, 10022008kB, raid superblock at 10021888kB > disk 1: /dev/sdb1, 36081959kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB > mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues. > > The syslog contains nothing even related > > /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] > read_ahead 128 sectors > md0: inactive > (same for md1-3) > > Does anyone have any clue what could be wrong? > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
