I brought up a raid5 on my RH6.0 system, no kernel changes - it seemed
happy. I put in persistent-superblock 1 and parity-algorithm left-symmetric
and 3 disks, no spares. mkraid returned fast but disk lights kept going
nearly an hour: /proc/mdstat said it was resyncing. There was one SCSI
timeout (see today's posts) but it seemed to do no harm: I fse2ck'd,
mounted, wrote to the pack and everything appeared cool. Then I rebooted.
It said autodetecting raid and came up properly. But if I try to mount
my raid device I get
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md1,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
(No I am not, by the way.) Looking at /proc/mdstat gives
Personalities:
read-ahead not set
unused devices: <none>
All the partitions are type 83, does that make a difference? I
seem to remember something about a type fd partition?
Thanks,
Larry Dickson
Land-5 Corporation
