Here is the configuration:
2 IDE drives on standard IDE channels on the mobo.
No hardware RAID involved. I am using the default software RAID
tools that come with RedHat 9. What I have done is install RH9 onto
a single IDE drive. Then add a second device on the second IDE
channel. I create a raiidtab file with /dev/hda and /dev/hdc as
devices belonging to the array /dev/md0. Then I run mkraid /dev/md0.
This creates the /dev/md0 array.
The RAID arrays are initialized by default (as far back as RH7) in
the rc.sysinit script with the usage of the raidstart command. With
a defined raidtab file, raidstart automatically reinits the raidarray
at each boot.
Here is my fstab and my raidtab: I'm not trying to get religious on
the issue, I just want some confirmation on whether this definition
is correct for an RH9 configuration. Obviously someone thought it
was important to include the fstab checking in the sysinit for RH9.
I commented this code out on my RH9 box because I could not
understand what it was looking for and the code did not exist on my
RH7 box which seems to function with the this exact same
configuraion.
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LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults
1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
1 2
none /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
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raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/hda
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdc
raid-disk 1
