From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "BERTRAND Joël" <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partitionable raid array... How to create devices ?
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:42:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18196.34718.434070.857620@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 471474D6.5090704@systella.fr
On Tuesday October 16, joel.bertrand@systella.fr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use software raid for a long time without any trouble. Today, I have
> to install a partitionable raid1 array over iSCSI. I have some questions
> because I don't understand how make this kind of array.
>
> I have a sparc64 (T1000) with a JBOD (U320 SCSI) that runs a 2.6.23
> linux kernel and debian testing distribution.
>
> /dev/sda : internal SAS drive -> OS
> /dev/sdb : internal SAS drive -> OS
>
> I have made on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb seven raid1 volumes (non
> partitionables arrays).
>
> /dev/sd[c-h] : external U320 drives. Each 300 GB drive only contains one
> "type fd" partition.
>
> I have tried to create a partitionable array with :
>
> Root gershwin:[/usr/src/linux-2.6.23] > mdadm -C /dev/mdp0 -l5
> --auto=mdp4 -n6 /dev/sd[c-h]1
Try
/dev/md/d0
or
/dev/md_d0
as suggested in the "DEVICE NAMES" section of the man page.
However what you used should work. I'll get that fixed for the next
release.
Thanks for the report,
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 8:22 Partitionable raid array... How to create devices ? BERTRAND Joël
2007-10-16 9:35 ` Janek Kozicki
2007-10-16 9:42 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-10-16 9:49 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-16 10:01 ` BERTRAND Joël
2007-10-16 9:57 ` Michal Soltys
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