Richard,
On Thursday 18 October 2007 03:19:07 pm Richard Creighton wrote:
> {stuff deleted}
>
> > Doing a clean install of opensuse 10.3. Again the first drive is /swap
> > (2 GB) /boot (/ext2 50MB) and /storage (ext3 300GB or so). Drives 2-4
> > are md0 (460GB ext3) intended to be /
> >
> > As Yast is formatting /, at the end of the process I get the following
> > message:
> >
> > Formatting software RAID /dev/md0 (465.7 GB) with ext3
> > System error code was -3008
> > /sbin/mke2fs -O div_index -j -v /dev/md0:
> > mke2fs 1.40.2 (12-jul-2007)
> > ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
> > read while creating root dir.
> >
> > I tried the installation a second time and got the identical error
> > message.
> >
> > I then tried using reiserfs instead of ext3. but got the follwoing error.
> >
> > Failure occurred during following action
> > Mounting /dev/md0 to /
> > System error code was -3003
> > mount -t reiserfs -oacl user_xattr /dev/md0 /mnt
> > mount: erro wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0
> > missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >
> > Motherboard is a TYAN S2925G2NR with nvidia nforce 3400 professional
> > northbridge and Western Digital CAviar SATA I drives, all new. I ran
> > memtest for about 4 hours, two complete passes and on the third with no
> > errors prior to installing. SMART and the BIOS all indicate the hard
> > drives are good.
> >
> > Googling on "short read" raid 5 errors and so forth didn't yield anything
> > useful. Any ideas would be appreciated. I could try other filesystems,
> > or i could try designating the RAID 5 as home. it is working fine as ?
> > in my current system.
> >
> > Mike
>
> Dunno about the short read...and under the assumption you are using MD
> raid, or 'software raid' rather than a motherboard controller
> 'fake-raid' controller and some forme of DM raid.
>
> My configuration is totally contained in the following
> http://www.ricreig.com/pub/PartnTbl.png but if you would rather use a
> partition for swap rather than raid 0, just reserve the space as a
> primary partition and not assign it as a MD device and add the necessary
> adjustments in /fstab. I would make the /boot the first physical
> partition. The arrangement I am using works well. I use EXT3
> formatting. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the reply. i am indeed using software RAID, not any RAID included
with the motherboard. Your configuration is much more complicated than mine,
and your RAID 5 is much larger than mine, so no reason mine shouldn't work.
I will double check settings in my BIOS to make sure it isn't causing
problems. I don't think I will put swap and boot on RAID, just /. looking
at your setup, I couldn't see anything I did wrong.
Mike
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