Hi Rajesh,
You need to:
mke2fs /dev/md0
mount /dev/md0 /mnt/raid
Once you've made the RAID disk you can't use the individual disk
partitions (/dev/sdb1, etc) any more.
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "Rajesh" == Rajesh Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rajesh> Hi, Sorry for this long mail. But it is essential to make
Rajesh> clear my problem.
Rajesh> [snip]
Rajesh> 4. Configured raidtab file (/etc/raidtab). The contents
Rajesh> are as follows :
Rajesh> raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 7
Rajesh> nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 4
Rajesh> device /dev/sdb10 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb1
Rajesh> raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdb5 raid-disk 2 device /dev/sdb6
Rajesh> raid-disk 3 device /dev/sdb7 raid-disk 4 device /dev/sdb9
Rajesh> raid-disk 5 device /dev/sdb11 raid-disk 6
Rajesh> 5. $ mkraid /dev/md0
Rajesh> 6. $ raidstart /dev/md0 This gives the message that raid
Rajesh> is active etc. So now I have put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
Rajesh> So raid is started on booting.
Rajesh> 7. The contents of /proc/mdstat after starting raid are as
Rajesh> follows :
Rajesh> Personalities : [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 :
Rajesh> active raid1 sdb11[6] sdb9[5] sdb7[4] sdb6[3] sdb5[2]
Rajesh> sdb1[1] sdb10[0] 26496 blocks [7/7] [UUUUUUU] unused
Rajesh> devices: <none>
Rajesh> 8. Now my problem is. If I try to mount say one of the
Rajesh> raid partitions (/dev/sdb1) in /mnt/raid than I am getting
Rajesh> the following error :
Rajesh> EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,17)): read_inode_bitmap: Cannot
Rajesh> read inode bitmap - block_group = 57, inode_bitmap =
Rajesh> 1867777 EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,17)):
Rajesh> read_inode_bitmap: Cannot read inode bitmap - block_group
Rajesh> = 58, inode_bitmap = 1900545 EXT2-fs error (device
Rajesh> sd(8,17)): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free inodes
Rajesh> count in super block, stored = 934375, counted = 15847
Rajesh> [snip]
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