Re: [gentoo-user] Help with nvidia fake raid.

[David Helstroom]

David Helstroom wrote:

Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:

when I boot the systems ask for real_root /dev/mapper/nv_xxxx device

I found the issue lay with Linux kernel 2.6.16 - I read a post somewhere (which I have since lost track of) that hinted a bug/feature of 2.6.16 meant some partitioning schemes would fail to be detected correctly under NVRaid. The solution for me (so far) has been to run 2.6.15, at least until 2.6.17 goes Gentoo-stable. In other words, I have masked 2.6.16.

I found the link which could be relevant and give further information to Google around:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186842

The chief problem (at least in my case) was (taken from above link) is that 2.6.16 introduces "the problem to this patch that limits dm-stripe to targets that are multiples of the chunk size". Depending on your RAID configuration, NVRAID could make use of dm-stripe, and thus you'll run into issues.

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