someone out there correct me if i am wrong, but from looking at my boxes:
raid 0.4x (which comes stock in the 2.2.x series of kernels)
has a /proc/mdstat that looks like this:
[root@finch root]$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
raid 0.90 (which comes already patched into redhat 6.x kernels, and is
available as a patch for various 2.2.x kernels) has a /proc/mdstat like this:
[root@bombtrack /root]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities :
read_ahead not set
unused devices: <none>
if your box tells you that devices are 'inactive', this means you are NOT
running a patched kernel. hence, things like raidtools, and the attendant
/etc/raidtab are USELESS. you must either patch your kernel, or run the older
mdutils and startup scripts. the former is highly recommended.
someone PLEASE correct me if i am wrong...
allan
David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I got the same errors until I increased my chunk size to 32K
>
>
>
> At 01:32 PM 3/23/2000, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, m. allan noah wrote:
> >
> > > > mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues
> >
> >And if I get the same msg when I try to build a raid 0? (my kernel
> >is RAID patched: 2.2.14)
> >
> >[flag@Luxor flag]$ cat /proc/mdstat
> >Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5]
> >read_ahead not set
> >md0 : inactive
> >md1 : inactive
> >md2 : inactive
> >md3 : inactive
> >[flag@Luxor flag]$
> >
> >Maybe cause I'm doing it on the same device? (/dev/hda)
> >I know it's stupid to do a RAID on the same device, but i'm just doing
> >some test...
> >
> >This is my raidtab:
> >
> > raiddev /dev/md0
> > raid-level 0
> > nr-raid-disks 2
> > persistent-superblock 0
> > chunk-size 16
> > device /dev/hda2
> > raid-disk 0
> > device /dev/hda4
> > raid-disk 1
> >
> >
> >Paolo
>
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