Ataraid-list Digest, Vol 23, Issue 5

[James Olson]

If dmraid isn't seeing one of your drives then you should talk to Heinz and send him your metadata off of that drive so he can try to figure out what the problem is and maybe patch it.   Smiles! Thats what I had to do.
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:53:48 +0100
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> >    1. Improved mkinitrd2 patch for FC4 (James Olson)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:26:44 -0500
> > From: "James Olson" <big_spender12 at lycos.com>
> > Subject: Improved mkinitrd2 patch for FC4
> > To: ataraid-list at redhat.com
> > Message-ID: <20060124132644.C2CCB86B12 at ws7-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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> > Here is my improved (but still not perfect) patch to the
> /sbin/mkinitrd
> > script so that you can use mkinitrd2 to create an initial
> ramdisk to boot
> > Fedora Core 4 using dmraid.  I found out
> > that if you don't have any drives that are using lvm it
> didn't set up
> > the device mapper properly so added the root_lvm=1 line.
> >
> > # diff -Naur mkinitrd mkinitrd2
> > --- mkinitrd    2005-05-17 15:03:33.000000000 -0700
> > +++ mkinitrd2   2006-01-16 02:18:46.000000000 -0800
> > @@ -423,6 +423,7 @@
> >         dmout=$(/sbin/dmsetup ls 2>/dev/null)
> >         if [ "$dmout" != "No devices found" -a "$dmout" !=
> "" ]; then
> >             findmodule -dm-mod
> > +           root_lvm=1
> >         fi
> >      fi
> >  fi
> > @@ -587,6 +588,7 @@
> >
> >  inst /sbin/nash "$MNTIMAGE/bin/nash"
> >  inst /sbin/insmod.static "$MNTIMAGE/bin/insmod"
> > +inst /sbin/dmraid.static "$MNTIMAGE/bin/dmraid"
> >  ln -s /sbin/nash $MNTIMAGE/sbin/modprobe
> >
> >  if [ -n "$USE_UDEV" ]; then
> > @@ -734,6 +736,8 @@
> >    else
> >      echo "echo Making device-mapper control node" >> $RCFILE
> >      echo "mkdmnod" >> $RCFILE
> > +    echo "echo Activating dmraid" >> $RCFILE
> > +    echo "dmraid -ay --ignorelocking" >> $RCFILE
> >      echo "echo Scanning logical volumes" >> $RCFILE
> >      echo "lvm vgscan --ignorelockingfailure" >> $RCFILE
> >      echo "echo Activating logical volumes" >> $RCFILE
> >
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> >
> Thanks a lot for all theses scripts, but what can I do when
> "deseperate", i've made an install of FC4, on a SATA Raid
> Array (Bios Mode) and dmraid saw only /dev/mapper/xxxxxxxxx (i
> don't remember the exact name), to boot on the complete Raid
> Array (I love mirroring for my precious files)?
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