Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1 - FIXED

2014-08-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 26 August 2014 18:25:00 Kerin Millar wrote: On 26/08/2014 17:49, Peter Humphrey wrote: So all this has been for nothing. I was sure I'd set 1.x metadata when creating the md device, but I must eat humble pie and glare once again at my own memory. Not to worry. However, I still

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 25 August 2014 18:46:23 Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/08/2014 17:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 13:35:11 Kerin Millar wrote: I now wonder if this is a race condition between the init script running `mdadm -As` and the fact that the mdadm package installs udev rules

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-26 Thread Kerin Millar
On 26/08/2014 10:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 18:46:23 Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/08/2014 17:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 13:35:11 Kerin Millar wrote: I now wonder if this is a race condition between the init script running `mdadm -As` and the fact

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 26 August 2014 14:21:19 Kerin Millar wrote: On 26/08/2014 10:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 18:46:23 Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/08/2014 17:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 13:35:11 Kerin Millar wrote: ---8 Again, can you find out what the

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-26 Thread Kerin Millar
On 26/08/2014 15:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2014 14:21:19 Kerin Millar wrote: On 26/08/2014 10:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 18:46:23 Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/08/2014 17:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 13:35:11 Kerin Millar wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1 - FIXED

2014-08-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 26 August 2014 17:00:37 Kerin Millar wrote: On 26/08/2014 15:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2014 14:21:19 Kerin Millar wrote: On 26/08/2014 10:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 18:46:23 Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/08/2014 17:51, Peter Humphrey

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1 - FIXED

2014-08-26 Thread Kerin Millar
On 26/08/2014 17:49, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2014 17:00:37 Kerin Millar wrote: On 26/08/2014 15:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2014 14:21:19 Kerin Millar wrote: On 26/08/2014 10:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 18:46:23 Kerin Millar wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 24 August 2014 19:22:40 Kerin Millar wrote: On 24/08/2014 14:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: ---8 So I decided to clean up /etc/mdadm.conf by adding these lines: DEVICE /dev/sda* /dev/sdb* ARRAY /dev/md5 devices=/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5 ARRAY /dev/md7 devices=/dev/sda7,/dev/sdb7 ARRAY

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 25 August 2014 10:22:31 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2014 19:22:40 Kerin Millar wrote: On 24/08/2014 14:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: ---8 So I decided to clean up /etc/mdadm.conf by adding these lines: DEVICE /dev/sda* /dev/sdb* ARRAY /dev/md5

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/08/2014 10:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2014 19:22:40 Kerin Millar wrote: On 24/08/2014 14:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: ---8 So I decided to clean up /etc/mdadm.conf by adding these lines: DEVICE /dev/sda* /dev/sdb* ARRAY /dev/md5 devices=/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5 ARRAY

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/08/2014 13:18, Kerin Millar wrote: snip No, I get the same result. Just a red asterisk at the left end of the line after Starting up RAID devices... It since dawned upon me that defining AUTO as such won't help because you define the arrays explicitly. Can you try again with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/08/2014 12:17, Peter Humphrey wrote: snip Well, it was simple. I just said rc-update del mdraid boot and all is now well. I'd better revisit the docs to see if they still give the same advice. -- Regards Peter Very interesting indeed. I now wonder if this is a race condition between

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 25 August 2014 13:35:11 Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/08/2014 12:17, Peter Humphrey wrote: snip Well, it was simple. I just said rc-update del mdraid boot and all is now well. I'd better revisit the docs to see if they still give the same advice. Very interesting indeed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/08/2014 17:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 25 August 2014 13:35:11 Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/08/2014 12:17, Peter Humphrey wrote: snip Well, it was simple. I just said rc-update del mdraid boot and all is now well. I'd better revisit the docs to see if they still give the same

[gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, For several years I've been running with / on /dev/md5 (0.99 metadata), which is built on /dev/sd[ab]5. At each boot I see a message scroll by saying something like No devices found in config file or automatically and then lvm continues to assemble md5 anyway and mount its file

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 Aug 2014 14:51:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, For several years I've been running with / on /dev/md5 (0.99 metadata), which is built on /dev/sd[ab]5. At each boot I see a message scroll by saying something like No devices found in config file or automatically and then lvm

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID-1

2014-08-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/08/2014 14:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, For several years I've been running with / on /dev/md5 (0.99 metadata), which is built on /dev/sd[ab]5. At each boot I see a message scroll by saying something like No devices found in config file or automatically and then lvm LVM does