From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
Cc: linux-raid maillist <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: raid6 array , part id 'fd' not assembling at boot .
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:36:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17915.32343.270875.583164@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Mr. James W. Laferriere on Friday March 16
On Friday March 16, babydr@baby-dragons.com wrote:
> Hello All , I am having a dickens of a time with preparing this system
> to replace my present one .
> I created a raid6 array over 6 147GB scsi drives .
> steps I followed were .
>
> fdisk /dev/sd[c-h] ( one at a time of course )
> created a partition starting at cyl 2 & -10 Cyls from the end of the drive .
> typed the partion FD
> w
> repeat until all six drives partitioned .
>
> mdadm --create /dev/md3 --chunk=64 --metadata=1.2 --verbose --bitmap=internal --level=6 --raid-devices=6 --spare-devices=0 /dev/sd[cdefgh]1
> Built just fine .
In-kernel auto-assembly using partition type 0xFD only works for
metadata=0.90. This is deliberate.
Don't use 0xFD partitions. Use mdadm to assemble your array, either
via an initrd or (if it don't hold the root filesystem) via an init.d
script.
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-17 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-17 1:48 raid6 array , part id 'fd' not assembling at boot Mr. James W. Laferriere
2007-03-17 5:36 ` Neil Brown [this message]
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2007-03-18 21:40 ` Neil Brown
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2007-03-19 3:33 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2007-03-31 11:58 ` Nix
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