I am using redhat 5.2 with 2.0.36 with the raid0145-19990108-2.0.36
patch and I have had raid sucessfully running on this before. I am
booting off a jazz drive which is sda, the other devices are 4gb drives
sdb through sde.
Sdb and sdc are to form one mirror and here is how they are partitioned.
Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 553 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1 8001 83 Linux native
/dev/sdb2 2 14 104422+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb3 15 553 4329517+ 85 Linux extended
/dev/sdb5 15 52 305203+ fd Unknown
/dev/sdb6 53 179 1020096 fd Unknown
/dev/sdb7 180 306 1020096 fd Unknown
/dev/sdb8 307 433 1020096 fd Unknown
/dev/sdb9 434 553 963868+ fd Unknown
Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 553 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 1 8001 83 Linux native
/dev/sdc2 2 14 104422+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdc3 15 553 4329517+ 85 Linux extended
/dev/sdc5 15 52 305203+ fd Unknown
/dev/sdc6 53 179 1020096 fd Unknown
/dev/sdc7 180 306 1020096 fd Unknown
/dev/sdc8 307 433 1020096 fd Unknown
/dev/sdc9 434 553 963868+ fd Unknown
/dev/sdd and /dev/sde are configured as follows
Disk /dev/sdd: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 553 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 13 104391 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdd2 14 553 4337550 fd Unknown
Disk /dev/sde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 553 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 13 104391 82 Linux swap
/dev/sde2 14 553 4337550 fd Unknown
here is what is in my /etc/raidtab
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 4
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/sdb5
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdc5
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md1
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 4
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/sdb6
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdc6
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md2
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 4
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/sdb7
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdc7
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md3
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 4
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/sdb8
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdc8
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md4
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 4
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/sdb9
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdc9
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md5
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 4
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/sdd2
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sde2
raid-disk 1
I have no problems doing a mkraid /dev/md5, but I cannot do 1-4 here is
what I get
[root@dhcp66-239 /root]# mkraid --really-force /dev/md3
DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md3 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
handling MD device /dev/md3
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sdb8, 1020096kB, raid superblock at 1020032kB
disk 1: /dev/sdc8, 1020096kB, raid superblock at 1020032kB
mkraid: aborted
and here is what appears in /var/log/messages
Dec 25 22:23:09 dhcp66-239 kernel: md: can not import sdb8, has active
inodes!
Dec 25 22:23:09 dhcp66-239 kernel: md: error, md_import_device()
returned -16
I have no clue what this means, and I need some help.
Thanks in advance.
Joe
