Re: Software RAID 0+1 with mdadm.

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:24:34PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
>On Wednesday January 26, ryan@dynaconnections.com wrote:
>> This bug that's fixed in 1.9.0, is in a bug when you create the array?  ie
>> do we need to use 1.9.0 to create the array.  I'm looking to do the same but
>> my bootdisk currently only has 1.7.soemthing on it.  Do I need to make a
>> custom bootcd with 1.9.0 on it?
>
>This issue that will be fixed in 1.9.0 has nothing to do with creating
>the array.
>
>It is only relevant for stacked arrays (e.g. a raid0 made out of 2 or
>more raid1 arrays), and only if you are using
>   mdadm --assemble --scan
>(or similar) to assemble your arrays, and you specify the devices to
>scan in mdadm.conf as
>   DEVICES partitions
>(i.e. don't list actual devices, just say to get them from the list of
>known partitions).
actually the last statement is not true, a missing close(mdfd); causes
mdadm --assemble --scan to fail the first round even if you do specify
DEV /dev/mdX in mdadm.conf.

L.

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