Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:38:14
Message-Id: 3847798.qPIUxmf7eF@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid by Jeff Cranmer
1 Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 23:44:10 schrieb Jeff Cranmer:
2 > On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 02:42 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > in your case
4 > >
5 > > sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc
6 > >
7 > > of course ;)
8 >
9 > One of the disks had a GPT partition table which I was eventually able
10 > to get rid of with gdisk (emerge -av gptfdisk).
11 >
12 > I'm close. I had a 2.7TiB RAID5 array using genkernal, comprising three
13 > 1.5TB disks, using the commands
14 > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5
15 > --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
16 >
17 > mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf
18 >
19 > I formatted this array as an xfs filesystem.
20 >
21 > After reboot, however, /dev/md0 is still there, but I get a 'can't read
22 > superblock' error.
23 >
24 > What am I missing?
25
26 have you set the type to linux raid autodetect?
27
28 have you tried mdadm --assemble?
29
30 --
31 #163933

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid Jeff Cranmer <jeff@××××××××××××××.com>