I am brand new to software RAID on linux so please bear with me. I have (4) 23GB SCSI drives on an Adaptec 2940UW controller in an alphastation 600. I created BSD disklabels on all the drives and partitioned them as one partition per drive. I made a raidtab containing all 4 partitions as members of a single RAID5 array. I ran mkraid /dev/md0 and the raid array was created and functioned. This is where the problem lies. If I stop the RAID array using raidstop /dev/md0 and run fdisk on each drive, it reports that each drive has a BSD disklabel with a single partition. However, if I format the RAID array using mke2fs -b 4096 -R stride=8, stop the array with raidstop, and check each drive with fdisk, the disklabel is removed on the second and third drives only. The first and fourth are fine though. Trying to start the array again with raidstart fails and mkraid will not recreate the array until I create disklabels on the second and third drives. I have not tried any other filesystems as ext2 is the only one my kernel currently supports. Any ideas? -- Rick Altherr KC8APF kc8apf@kc8apf.net - 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
