RAID woes

rob shugg rshugg at kinetitech.com.au
Mon Mar 10 17:16:26 EST 2003


I can't seem to set up a new raid1 and cant find out why.
I have included all the relavant info, the kernel is a custom 2.4.20 with all 
the raid stuff compiled in - no module support either. Can anyone point me in 
the right direction.

rob


/etc/raidtab
raiddev /dev/md0
        raid-level
        nr-raid-disks   2
        nr-spare-disks  0
        chunk-size     4
        persistent-superblock 1
        device          /dev/hde1
        raid-disk       0
        device          /dev/hdg1
        raid-disk       1


dmsg on boot:

md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.


# mkraid  /dev/md0
gives: 

Mar 10 17:01:22 kpt kernel: md: bind<hde1,1>
Mar 10 17:01:22 kpt kernel: md: bind<hdg1,2>
Mar 10 17:01:22 kpt kernel: md: hdg1's event counter: 00000000
Mar 10 17:01:22 kpt kernel: md: hde1's event counter: 00000000
Mar 10 17:01:22 kpt kernel: md: personality 1 is not loaded!
Mar 10 17:01:22 kpt kernel: md: md0 still in use.

/proc/mdstat:

Personalities : [raid1]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive hdg1[1] hde1[0]
      0 blocks
unused devices: <none>


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