I am trying to use mkraid to setup a software raid array. I have 3 * 4G drives with a two partitions each. the first partition is a 64 byte block for an Apple Partition Map, the rest is a unix partition. I have setup the /etc/raidtab that is attached and when I try mkraid /dev/md0, it sees each of the disks/partitions it should be seeing, then aborts and tells me to look in syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues. I have attached my raidtab file and my proc/mdstat file and hope someone can point me in the right direction. -- UNIX *is* user friendly. It is just very picky about who it's friends are.
# Sample raid-5 configuration raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 3 chunk-size 128 # Parity placement algorithm #parity-algorithm left-asymmetric # the best one for maximum performance: parity-algorithm left-symmetric #parity-algorithm right-asymmetric #parity-algorithm right-symmetric # Spare disks for hot reconstruction #nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/sdb2 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdc2 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdd2 raid-disk 2
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5] read_ahead not set md0 : inactive md1 : inactive md2 : inactive md3 : inactive
