Please help me trouble shoot the RAID installation.
I am trying to concatenate 2 scsi drives of 50 GB each using software RAID
level 1 in Linux 6.1.
1. I created 2 raid partitions during installation on scsi drives a and
b. These are /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb1 and of equal number of blocks.
2. created an /etc/raidtab file and rebooted the machine
3. did mkraid -f /dev/md0
4. entered the command for making the file system
A log of relevant info is attached.
As you can see, in step 4 I get a message "Invalid argument passed to ext2
library while setting up superblock."
What can I do to correct this situation?
TIA
Devaraj.
<<raidlog.txt>>
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 0
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 64k
persistent-superblock 1
#nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/sdb1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sda5
raid-disk 1
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 6081 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 6081 48741210 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14 5750 46082421 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda6 5751 5878 1028128+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda7 5879 6006 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 6007 6038 257008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 6039 6064 208813+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 6081 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 5737 46082421 fd Linux raid autodetect
mkraid -f /dev/md0
--force and the new RAID 0.90 hot-add/hot-remove functionality should be
used with extreme care! If /etc/raidtab is not in sync with the real array
configuration, then a --force will DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA. It's especially
dangerous to use -f if the array is in degraded mode.
PLEASE dont mention the --really-force flag in any email, documentation or
HOWTO, just suggest the --force flag instead. Thus everybody will read
this warning at least once :) It really sucks to LOSE DATA. If you are
confident that everything will go ok then you can use the --really-force
flag. Also, if you are unsure what this is all about, dont hesitate to
ask questions on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkfs /dev/md0
mke2fs 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/md0: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock
