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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Converting a .90 raid superblock to version 1.0 and
 whether--size parameter is needed
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:03:45 +1100
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:58:05 -0700 Sean Harris <sean@backblaze.com> wrote:

> Thanks Neil,
> I'd like to try this but I'm having trouble installing it on Debian 5 (le=
nny).
>=20
> When I try to make install, it complains:
>=20
> ***** Parent of /run/mdadm does not exist.  Maybe set different RUN_DIR=3D
> *****  e.g. make RUN_DIR=3D/dev/.mdadm
> ***** or set CHECK_RUN_DIR=3D0
> make: *** [check_rundir] Error 1
>=20
> cat /etc/debian_version=20
> 5.0.10
>=20
> The default run directory apparently is not there ie: /run/mdadm
> That directory exists on Debian 7 but not Debian 5.
>=20
> I admittedly do not know what to set that variable to on Lenny. Can you p=
oint me to what to look for?

Does /dev/.mdadm exist?  If it does, try

  make RUN_DIR=3D/dev/.mdadm

If not, just use

  make CHECK_RUN_DIR=3D0

You don't need access to the rundir to assemble some devices.

And don't "make install".  Just "make", and then run

 ./mdadm ....

or copy mdadm to some where (e.g. /sbin/mdadm-new) and only use mdadm-new
when you particularly want the new features.

NeilBrown

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