Subject: Software RAID lockup on format From: Jarod Wilson <jcw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
I'm attempting to set up a software RAID-5 array, consisting of 5 120GB hard drives, 3 internal (on Promise ATA cards) and 2 external (FireWire). I have everything defined just fine in /etc/raidtab (or so I believe), and can run through "mkraid /dev/mdx" (x=2 in this case), but every time I try to format, my system locks up (hard lock, no network, no tty, no nothing'), I believe at this same point:
Writing inode tables: 3417/3577.
I'm formatting it w/this command:
mke2fs -j -b 4096 -R stride=16 -m 0 /dev/md2.
I originally tried this under Red Hat Linux 8.0.94, then under 9 upgraded from 8.0.94, then under a clean install of 9. Same results, every time. Anyone got any ideas?
Note to self: Extract head from arse. I forgot to set the partition types to linux raid autodetect instead of linux native. D'oh! Everything looks good now though. Somewhat surprising that it let me get as far as it did in my stupidity, but live and learn.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md2 441G 33M 440G 1% /media
md2 : active raid5 hdo1[4] hdm1[3] hdk1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0]
468747776 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]Time to fill that beast... -- Jarod Wilson, RHCE <jcw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> "A wise man once said nothing at all."
