I've got a new laptop that has two hard drives in it and I've chosen
to use RAID1 on it. The Gentoo install is complete but when I reboot
the kernel doesn't find the RAID and I hang without syncing.
During the Gentoo install from a CD the machine is called (apparently)
"livecd". To build the RAID initially I wanted it to be /dev/md3 so I
used
livecd ~ # mknod /dev/md3 b 9 3
livecd ~ # mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level=1 --raid-devices=2
/dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3
livecd ~ # mke2fs -j /dev/md3
and everything went fine.
However once I've rebooted using the CD, and even though the machine
is once again called livecd the RAID is now called /dev/md127. I
assume, but don't know for sure, that something similar is happening
when I boot the actual installation, mdadm gives the RAID a different
name and it's likely not found by my new environment.
What's the right solution to changing the RAID naming in the
superblock so that the laptop finds it as local to 'laptop1' and
mounts it according the fstab?
I understand that I can probably put the UUID in the mdadm config
file, and I will, but before I do I wanted to cross this threshold and
figure out the right way to do it automatically.
Thanks,
Mark
livecd ~ # mdadm --detail /dev/md127
/dev/md127:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Wed Feb 16 16:03:29 2011
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 343758245 (327.83 GiB 352.01 GB)
Used Dev Size : 343758245 (327.83 GiB 352.01 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Feb 17 19:42:36 2011
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Name : livecd:3 (local to host livecd)
UUID : f75493a8:1189516e:0f192f04:e21fbe28
Events : 17
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 3 0 active sync /dev/sda3
1 8 19 1 active sync /dev/sdb3
livecd ~ # mdadm --examine /dev/sda3
/dev/sda3:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : f75493a8:1189516e:0f192f04:e21fbe28
Name : livecd:3 (local to host livecd)
Creation Time : Wed Feb 16 16:03:29 2011
Raid Level : raid1
Raid Devices : 2
Avail Dev Size : 687516763 (327.83 GiB 352.01 GB)
Array Size : 687516490 (327.83 GiB 352.01 GB)
Used Dev Size : 687516490 (327.83 GiB 352.01 GB)
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : 4430631f:454150f1:903a86cc:9d2c034c
Update Time : Thu Feb 17 19:42:36 2011
Checksum : 9adbdc7f - correct
Events : 17
Device Role : Active device 0
Array State : AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
livecd ~ #
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