Re: "failed-disk" ?

["Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net>]

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No but according to the RAID HOWTO it says it's a valid keyword for when
you need to build a mirror with a failed/missing disk (i.e. converting
root to raid and can't kill your existing /)


Thus spake Lars Marowsky-Bree (lmb@suse.de):

> On 2003-03-20T16:22:50,
>    "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net> said:
> 
> > I'm trying to "mkraid /dev/md1" with the following:
> > 
> > raiddev /dev/md1
> >   raid-level 1
> >   nr-raid-disks 2
> >   nr-spare-disks 0
> >   chunk-size 16
> >   persistent-superblock 1
> >   device failed-disk
> >   raid-disk 0
> >   device /dev/sdb1
> >   raid-disk 1
> > 
> > I'm trying to convert this machine to raid1 on root.  Don't ask about
> > the md1, long story.  At any rate when I do the mkraid I get this:
> > 
> > root@rharris-build2:~# mkraid /dev/md1
> > handling MD device /dev/md1
> > analyzing super-block
> > couldn't call stat() on device failed-disk -- No such file or directory
> > mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
> 
> Does your system have a device named 'failed-disk' ? I would assume not ;-)
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
>     Lars Marowsky-Br?e <lmb@suse.de>
> 
> -- 
> SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG
>   
> "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)."
>   -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy            -- Louis Pasteur

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