dmraid fails on 2.6.10 kernel

Heinz Mauelshagen mauelshagen at redhat.com
Wed Jan 12 14:38:34 UTC 2005


On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 08:08:30AM +0000, Ivan Todoroski wrote:
> I just upgraded to kernel 2.6.10, and dmraid is not working anymore. The
> configuration of 2.6.10 is identical to my previous 2.6.9 config, I loaded the
> same config file in both kernels and recompiled them both just to make sure. As
> soon as I switch the kernel from 2.6.9 to 2.6.10, dmraid stops working.
> 
> When doing 'dmraid -vvvddd -ay', I can see that dmraid finds the signatures of
> my Promise Fasttrak RAID-0 array, but it never registers the partitions on the
> device-mapper devices. Maybe some syscall was changed incompatibly in 2.6.10?
> 
> Sorry I can't post the output of dmraid with 2.6.10 at the moment, as I have
> dmraid running from an initrd environment, the boot partition is on RAID, and I
> haven't managed to boot succesfully with 2.6.10+dmraid yet.
> 
> If this is needed, let me know, I will try to modify the initrd image to dump
> the output of dmraid to a floppy disk during boot.

Yes, provide that to me please.

> 
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