No but according to the RAID HOWTO it says it's a valid keyword for when
you need to build a mirror with a failed/missing disk (i.e. converting
root to raid and can't kill your existing /)
Thus spake Lars Marowsky-Bree (lmb@suse.de):
> On 2003-03-20T16:22:50,
> "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net> said:
>
> > I'm trying to "mkraid /dev/md1" with the following:
> >
> > raiddev /dev/md1
> > raid-level 1
> > nr-raid-disks 2
> > nr-spare-disks 0
> > chunk-size 16
> > persistent-superblock 1
> > device failed-disk
> > raid-disk 0
> > device /dev/sdb1
> > raid-disk 1
> >
> > I'm trying to convert this machine to raid1 on root. Don't ask about
> > the md1, long story. At any rate when I do the mkraid I get this:
> >
> > root@rharris-build2:~# mkraid /dev/md1
> > handling MD device /dev/md1
> > analyzing super-block
> > couldn't call stat() on device failed-disk -- No such file or directory
> > mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
>
> Does your system have a device named 'failed-disk' ? I would assume not ;-)
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Lars Marowsky-Br?e <lmb@suse.de>
>
> --
> SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG
>
> "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)."
> -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur
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