Thank you for your advice Alexis, I have now tried to do this using wd2d and it does indeed make sense. I am still having problems however. Everything seams to go fine, to what the 2 guides I am following suggest, but when reconstructing the data is where I get stuck!
When running raidctl -vF component0 raid0 I see RECON: initiating reconstruction on row - col 0 -> spare at row 0 col 2. Quiescence reached... And that is where it stops, just sitting there. I am guessing when you do the command it brings up a bar of how much it has reconstructed with maybe an ETA, but I don't see this, no hard drive light flashing. Befor that command I do disklabel wd1 > /root/disklabel.wd1 disklabel -R wd0 /root/disklabel.wd1 raidctl -a /dev/wd0b raid0 Which seams fine with me. Did you following a guide to teach your self this? I have tried reading over man raidctl but it's now showing me anything more then I know already and what I am not doing correct to cause this reconstruction to just hang...? Any ideas Many Thanks Chris -----Original Message----- From: Alexis de BRUYN [mailto:ale...@de-bruyn.fr] Sent: 31 March 2009 12:33 To: Chris Harries Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0 > > A: 144522 4.2BSD (this is the 64MB drive to boot off > > B: 1953375480 RAID (this is the RAID data partition > > C: 1953523055 UNUSED Using 'b' (even 'c') is not a good idea for me too. Try on your second disk (mirror), before configuring RAID, with the two following partitions: a: 512M 4.2BSD Boot partition c: ----- unused Entire drive d: * RAID Everything except boot kernel >> >> START disks >> >> /dev/wd2b # the fake device >> >> /dev/wd1b >> >> And then: START disks /dev/wd2d /dev/wd1d It works for my several configurations all the times. Chris Harries a icrit : > Thank you for your time. > > This I did find weird, wondering why on this guide, it is setting B to RAID > and not swap...on boot it does say it cannot find swap but this guide did > come recommended... > > It says > > A: 144522 4.2BSD (this is the 64MB drive to boot off > B: 1953375480 RAID (this is the RAID data partition > C: 1953523055 UNUSED > > I am guessing you meant wd0 and wd1, the guide suggested making wd2 as the > fake device as I am creating the install on wd0, putting over to wd1 then > booting to wd1 and initializing wd0 again and create the raid, in a very cut > way to explain it > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: J.C. Roberts [mailto:list-...@designtools.org] > Sent: 30 March 2009 13:16 > To: Chris Harries > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0 > > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:43:31 +0100 "Chris Harries" > <ch...@sharescope.co.uk> wrote: > >> START disks >> /dev/wd2b # the fake device >> /dev/wd1b >> > > The above looks weird. The 'b' partition is typically swap. > > What do the following commands tell you? > > $ sudo disklabel -n wd1 > > $ sudo disklabel -n wd2 > > -- Alexis de BRUYN email : ale...@de-bruyn.fr
