> I've created the appropriate partitions, set the partition ID to fd, and
> created the appropriate /etc/raidtab file. Running:
>
> mkraid /dev/md0 give me:
>
> Handeling MD device /dev/md0
> analysing super block
> invalid chunk size (0Kb)
> mkraid: aborting
including the raidtab would have been nice, but I'm guessing you need a
chunk-size line in your /etc/raidtab... I'll include my raidtab here
which uses the same raidtools. I had the same chunk-size problem myself
starting out with 5.2 :)
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raiddev /dev/md0
# General parameters
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 9
nr-spare-disks 1
chunk-size 256
parity-algorithm left-symmetric
# RAID disks
device /dev/sdc1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdd1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sde1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/sdf1
raid-disk 3
device /dev/sdg1
raid-disk 4
device /dev/sdh1
raid-disk 5
device /dev/sdi1
raid-disk 6
device /dev/sdj1
raid-disk 7
device /dev/sdk1
raid-disk 8
# spare disks
device /dev/sdl1
spare-disk 0
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James Manning
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Hardware Design Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
