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

[Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>]

Did you try creating the filesystem with mke2fs like the man page suggests?

Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com> writes:

> 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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