From: "BERTRAND Joël" <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partitionable raid array... How to create devices ?
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:01:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47148BFF.3000505@systella.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18196.34718.434070.857620@notabene.brown>
Neil Brown wrote:
> 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, it works now. I have seen this note, thus I have remaned my
array mdp0, but it was not enough ;-)
Regards,
JKB
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 10:01 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
2007-10-16 9:49 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-16 10:01 ` BERTRAND Joël [this message]
2007-10-16 9:57 ` Michal Soltys
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