On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Luca Berra wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:28:37PM -0600, Sharif Islam wrote: [...] > ># cat /proc/mdstat > >Personalities : [linear] [raid0] > >read_ahead 1024 sectors > >Event: 1 > where does this line come from? > are you running a vanilla or patched kernel? which version? No patching. # uname -r 2.4.21-4.ELsmp Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 Few other things I noticed while playing with linear raid. I haven't seen much documentation online about it, so bare with me. It is a test machine so I am not worried about data loss or things like that. 1. The raid creation process was very quick, unlike RAID 1 and RAID 5. 2. Every time I reboot the raid partition doesn't get mounted. However, if I run mdadm -Cv -llinear -n6 /dev/md0 /dev/hd{e,f,g,h,k,l} and mount /dev/md0 /raid it comes back again with all my data. I included the partition in /etc/fstab, but that gives error. Also my rc.local has mdadm -As + mount command. That doesn't have any effect either. and 3. I get the following warning message when I run the mdadm -Cv command, for all the disks. mdadm: /dev/hdi appears to contain an ext2fs file system size=120103040K mtime=Mon Jan 12 12:42:37 2004 ... Continue creating array? I hit yes, and my array is back. Here mtime is the last time my array was up. Did I screw up somewhere or all these make some sense? -Sharif - 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