Re: RAID5 kicks non-fresh drives

[Craig Hollabaugh <craig@hollabaugh.com>]

I had no idea about this particular configuration requirement. None of
my reading mentioned setting the partition type. I originally created
the array 1/2003 and don't remember having to set it. So, yes, more
debugging info in dmesg would have saved me days of
resyncing/tweak/reboot/resync cycles. (I'm not complaining, just very
relieved to up and running again).
 



On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 09:57 +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Craig Hollabaugh wrote:
> 
> > That did it! I set the partition FS Types from 'Linux' to 'Linux raid 
> > autodetect' after my last re-sync completed. Manually stopped and 
> > started the array. Things looked good, so I crossed my fingers and 
> > rebooted. The kernel found all the drives and all is happy here in 
> > Colorado.
> 
> Would it make sense for the raid code to somehow warn in the log when a 
> device in a raid set doesn't have "Linux raid autodetect" partition type? 
> If this was in "dmesg", would you have spotted the problem before?
> 
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