Trouble with Raid 1

David Backeberg dave at microway.com
Wed Apr 28 09:56:30 EDT 2004


Doug:

It looks like you got a pretty good clue from your messages....

Working Devices : 1
 Failed Devices : 1

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       3       72        0      active sync   /dev/hdb8
       1       0        0        1      faulty

So hdb8 is working okay. What is the other partition you want to use with your 
raid1? By definition, raid1 is mirroring, which means you need two partitions 
of equal size, or one partition where you only use as much space is the 
smaller of the two partitions.

On Sunday 25 April 2004 21:33, Doug Sweetser wrote:
> Hello Tom:
>
> I am using the program mdadm program to create this array,
> which does not use the raidtab file.  both tools are suppose
> to accomplish the same thing, but have different config files.
> With mdadm, it is all controlled with options.  With mkraid,
> there is the raidtab file, raidstart, and raidstop.  I am
> following the directions for mdadm posted to blu a while ago,
> plus an article on the topic:
>
> http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html
>
> mdadm: A New Tool For Linux Software RAID Management
> by Derek Vadala, author of Managing RAID with Linux
> 12/05/2002
>
> doug
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