From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?BERTRAND_Jo=EBl?= Subject: Re: Partitionable raid array... How to create devices ? Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:01:35 +0200 Message-ID: <47148BFF.3000505@systella.fr> References: <471474D6.5090704@systella.fr> <18196.34718.434070.857620@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18196.34718.434070.857620@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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