> originally, i followed all the docs, and suceeded in mirroring the two
> drives, but the problems started when i went to format the partition
> (/dev/md0) with mke2fs, i got an error along the lines of "the file system
> returned an unsupported library function call" or something, i no longer
> can duplicate this message to give the exact wording because in my efforts
> to fix it it got worse (heh, usually the case when you dont really know
> what yer doing)
This message is due to the fact that you didn't have the raid1 module
inserted - if you'd done 'cat /proc/mdstat' you'd have seen the raid1
personality wasn't registered. If you put
alias md-personality-3 raid1
in your /etc/conf.modules, the raid1 module would autoload.
Upgrading to raidtools-0.90 really should have gone along with patching
your kernel. Did you do that? And did you check /var/log/messages after the
mkraid abort?
Hope some of this helps. I'm just a newbie at this stuff too.
Regards,
Peter
