----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: "Jean-Rene Cormier" <jean-rene.cormier@cipanb.ca> Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:11 PM Subject: Re: Software RAID1 problems > On February 20, jean-rene.cormier@cipanb.ca wrote: > > Well since I had some trouble with raidtools giving me a Segfault when I > > tried to create an array, I decided to try mdadm, I can create an array > > and format it and mount it afterwards but after I unmount it I can't > > mount it again. I get an error saying unknown FS type or something like > > that. When I do an mdadm --detail /dev/md0 in the state it says dirty, > > no-error, shouldn't that be clean, no-error? How can I get that array to > > that state? I tried recreating that array like 5 times already and still > > the same thing. btw I'm running Linux 2.4.20 with glibc-2.3.1 if that > > changes anything. > > It is always dirty when assembled and writable. This is normal. > > If you switch to read-only, it should should clean. > If you stop the array and use --examine on the devices, they should > show clean. > > I cannot explain the mounting problem. Maybe if you give more > specifics.... Well what I did was: mdadm -Cv -l2 -n2 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/md0 mke2fs -j /dev/md0 mount /dev/md0 /home then I unmounted it and when I tried to mount it again right after unmounting it I got the Wrong FS type error and I get a bunch of error message on the console. Jean-Rene Cormier - 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
