Re: "failed-disk" ?

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

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Actually I thought that meant only when converting a root to raid, but
as a random guess tried this.  I had to physically swap the lines so it
looked like:

device /dev/lvm-vg2/lvm2
raid-disk 1
device /dev/lvm-vg1/lvm1
failed-disk 0

It came right up after that.


Thus spake danci@agenda.si (danci@agenda.si):

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> >   I'm at the point of trying to restart /dev/md0 with one mirror dead.
> > My raidtab looks like this:
> >
> > raiddev /dev/md0
> >   raid-level 1
> >   nr-raid-disks 2
> >   nr-spare-disks 0
> >   chunk-size 16
> >   persistent-superblock 1
> >   device /dev/lvm-vg1/lvm1
> >   raid-disk 0
> >   device /dev/lvm-vg2/lvm2
> >   raid-disk 1
> >
> > I changed the first raid-disk line to be:
> >   failed-disk 0
> 
> I'm not sure if this is your problem, but the Software RAID How-To says:
> 
> "Don't put the failed-disk as the first disk in the raidtab, that will
> give you problems with starting the RAID. Create the RAID, and put a
> filesystem on it."
> 
> It may be that SW RAID cannot really use LVMs. It is usually the
> other way around (LVM using RAID arrays).
> 
>   D.

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