Re: [TCLUG:20991] /var as Linear (append)

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting Nate Carlson (natecars@real-time.com):
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > Look more in-depth at the problem, I even see the RAID personalities being
> > registered with the kernel:
> > 
> > md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> > linear personality registered
> > raid0 personality registered
> > raid1 personality registered
> > raid5 personality registered
> > 
> > But then:
> > 
> > Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode [  OK  ]
> > Finding module dependencies [  OK  ]
> > Starting up RAID devices: /dev/md0: Invalid argument
> > /dev/md0 must be a nonpersistent RAID0 or LINEAR array!
> > md0 
> 
> Ah! An old style md array.. try starting it with 'raidstart /dev/md0'
> 

Well, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysint has this:

                if [ -z "$RAIDSTAT" ]; then
                        # Try raidstart first...if that fails then
                        # fall back to raidadd, raidrun.  If that
                        # also fails, then we drop to a shell
                        RESULT=1
                        if [ -x /sbin/raidstart ]; then
                                /sbin/raidstart $i
                                RESULT=$?
                        fi
                        if [ $RESULT -gt 0 -a -x /sbin/raid0run ]; then
                                /sbin/raid0run $i
                                RESULT=$?
                        fi

So, it is trying raidstart first, but failing.


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