I am quickly reaching the end of the rope. I wanted to learn
about RAID in linux (having used it much in NT), so I tried to patch Redhat
2.0.36 with the 0145 raid patch, which simply returned "XXXXX not set" messages
in defconfig.rej. Since I could find no info on what to do to solve that, I
upgraded to kernel 2.2.4 (which I assume doesn't need the 0145 patch since
it has the "personalities" and raid 1 and 5 can be selected in the make config).
So I set up a 100+mb partition as hda5 and a 100+mb partition on hdb1(both of
which were configured under the original Redhat 5.2 install), umounted them, set
up the raidtab to say use Raid 1 with the /dev/hda5 and /dev/hdb1 partitions, no
spares and the persistent superblock 1 value. When I do a
mkraid --really-force /dev/md1, I get the
message:
disk 0: /dev/hdb1 166129kb, raid superblock at
166016kb
disk 1: /dev/hda5 167296kb, raid superblock at
167232kb
mkraid: aborted
What happened? I've spent days and days on trying to make this
work (I had to install a WinNT server because I had a deadline and couldn't make
this work). What did I do wrong? And how would I know? There's no docs on what
happens when it all goes wrong.
ch
