On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Scott Smyth wrote:
> 1) I keep getting the /dev/md0 invalid argument with raidstart so I do a
> mkraid which I thought you did not have to do with linear concatenation
> and it aborts at the end after using --force. However, the device is
> created after that, but I cannot seem to do anything with it. What is
> wrong with my approach?; and
use the 'persistent-superblock = 1' flag. the default is 0 for RAID0 and
LINEAR. only persistent RAID arrays can be auto/raidstarted.
> 2) Can I add partitions to the linear md0 after creating it
> without destroying everything assuming I am doing #1 correctly?
> I asked this before and received a "yes", but my problems with
> #1 have left me wondering if I have to use mkraid which is
> destructive I believe.
the answer is yes, but i'm wondering what you want to achieve with it. If
you've created an ext2 filesystem on that device, it will not get larger
even if you enlarge the array.
-- mingo
