I've set up a 2.2.0pre8 system (with raid in the kernel) and built and
installed raidtools-0.90. When I run mkraid, I get the follow
results. (I've tried this for raid-1 and raid-5 devices, too.)
[root@tekelili]# mkraid /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 1028128kB, raid superblock at 1028032kB
disk 1: /dev/sdc1, 1028128kB, raid superblock at 1028032kB
disk 2: /dev/sdd1, 1028128kB, raid superblock at 1028032kB
disk 3: /dev/sde1, 1028128kB, raid superblock at 1028032kB
disk 4: /dev/sdf1, 1028128kB, raid superblock at 1028032kB
mkraid: aborted
My /etc/raidtab looks like:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 0
nr-raid-disks 5
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 64
device /dev/sdb1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdc1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sdd1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/sde1
raid-disk 3
device /dev/sdf1
raid-disk 4
Any hints?
Danny.