Re: Problem with RAID1 on kernel 2.4

["I. Forbes" <iforbes@zsd.co.za>]

Hello Russell 

Yes it was "nr-spare-disks 1"

I just cut and copied setup from another machine and edited to 
illustrate my message.  I missed the spare disks.  :-(

At least raidtools2 shouts very quickly when you do that (I know!).

Thanks

Ian


On 27 Feb 2002, at 15:14, Russell Coker wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:53, you wrote:
> > when it should have been
> >
> > raiddev                 /dev/md0
> >   raid-level            1
> >   nr-raid-disks         2
> >   nr-spare-disks        0
> 
> Surely that should be "nr-spare-disks 1"?
> 
> >   chunk-size            4
> >   persistent-superblock 1
> >   device                /dev/hda5
> >   raid-disk             0
> >   device                /dev/hdc5
> >   failed-disk             1
> >   device                /dev/hde5
> >   spare-disk           0
> >
> > NB note the last line of each block.
> >
> > The man page shows and example but it is not clear on how the
> > index numbers should be set.
> 
> The man page for mdctl is worse...  :(
> 
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