Neil,
On 3/8/07, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday March 8, simon.d.matthews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have a working RAID1 set. This is in a Gentoo system and I
> configured the RAID set using raidtools. I see that Raidtools are now
> deprecated in favor of mdadm.
>
> I installed mdadm, but it does not recognize my raid set. I tried the
> following command (note that my RAID set is active while I do this):
> $ mdadm /dev/md0 --query --detail
Try
mdadm --detail /dev/md0
Looks good:
# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.03
Creation Time : Sat Oct 15 16:20:52 2005
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 198153664 (188.97 GiB 202.91 GB)
Used Dev Size : 198153664 (188.97 GiB 202.91 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Mar 8 23:15:38 2007
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
UUID : de2ca4d0:7a3f6d57:d6751dc4:a51265e3
Events : 0.12491522
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 18 0 active sync /dev/sdb2
If that doesn't work, what about
cat /proc/mdadm
>
> This results in no output. I believe this is because I forgot to
> change the partition types on the partitions that make up the RAID set
> (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1) to type fd (they are the default type 82).
It has nothing to do with partition types.
>
> Can I safely change the partition types to fd on the partions that
> make up my RAID set?
It is perfectly safe to change partition type.
So I should be safe in just removing the raidtools package and
installing mdadm?
Regards,
Simon
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