From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fd filesystem and RAID1
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 10:58:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oeq7me9d.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1080948756.999.10.camel@localhost
On 03 Apr 2004, Ninti Systems wrote:
> I've been able to do everything involved in setting up a simple RAID1
> with 2 IDE disks on Slackware 9.1 except get it to actually keep
> working on reboot.
>
> I installed on one disk, built 'degraded' RAID1 devices on the second
> disk, copied data, etc. I can hot add devices from the original disk
> to the RAID arrays. RAID devices in /etc/fstab come up (in degraded
> mode) on boot.
>
> The problem is that hot-added devices never stick, the RAID arrays are
> always degraded again on reboot.
>
> mdadm complains of missing superblocks. I have read the man page but
> can't see how to manage superblocks (create/delete) if this is even
> possible.
>
> I'm wondering if have to make the original install partitions type
> 'fd' as well as those on the second disk?
The kernel auto-discovery will only probe a partition that has type
'fd', so if you want both parts of the mirror to work, both need to be
type 'fd'.
Daniel
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-05 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-02 23:32 fd filesystem and RAID1 Ninti Systems
2004-04-05 0:58 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
2004-04-05 8:00 ` Ninti Systems
2004-04-05 9:08 ` Ninti Systems
2004-04-05 14:48 ` Daniel Pittman
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