> Hi, > > I just tried to setup a one-device raid onto an USB flash drive. > Creating, setting up ext3 and filling with data was no problem. > But when I tried to work with it afterwards the metadevice was > unresponsive. I tried both linear and raid0 levels, but that > made no difference. > For my uneducated eye it looks like something is deadlocking if > md tries to read from the device. > > I'm using kernel 2.6.18 (gentoo) on a VIA EPIA CN10000 mainboard > with a 2GB USB flash drive (extreme). Please ask if I should provide > more information like dmesg or lspci. > > The main reason why I'm trying this weird setup is that the USB > drive is always enumerated last in my kernel, and I want to boot > from it. That means every time I add a disk or remove one I have > to edit grub.conf and fstab. Very inconvenient. So my idea was > to create a single device md on it and leave it to the autodetection > to find the device. So I never have to edit /etc/fstab again for > a simple hardware change and I'm independent of any enumeration > changes in future kernel releases. > > But unfortunately it doesn't work :-( > > Any help appreciated. > > --Arne > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > I believe you could use udev persistant names (eg /dev/dsk/by-name) to refer to your USB partitions, instead of /dev/sd?, etc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
