FC3 mdadm issue
Aaron M. Hirsch
aaronh at uptime.net
Fri Dec 3 17:38:43 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 16:34 +0000, Robin Bowes wrote:
> Aaron M. Hirsch wrote:
> > I created md0-3 during boot and now want to create another raid device
> > which would be md4. I've gone through the man page and searched online
> > but am coming up blanks for an answer. I am using FC3 x86_64...
> >
> > To create the new raid device I ran: mdadm --create /dev/md4 --level=0
> > --raid-disks=2 /dev/hda6 /dev/hdc6 which errors out stating: mdadm:
> > error opening /dev/md4: No such file or directory. Of course it's not
> > there yet, I'm just now trying to create it.
>
> I ran into this yesterday.
>
> You have two options:
>
> 1. From Luca Berra: "you could use the --auto= option of mdadm to have
> it create the device for you, the only issue with that is that mdadm
> will use the first free minor numbr it finds instead of using the minor
> implied by the device name. (i was planning on changing that behaviour
> sooner or later)."
>
> 2. Use mknod to create the device before creating the array. Here's what
> I did to create /dev/md2:
>
> # [root at dude dev]# mknod --help
> Usage: mknod [OPTION]... NAME TYPE [MAJOR MINOR]
> Create the special file NAME of the given TYPE.
>
> -Z, --context=CONTEXT set security context (quoted string)
> Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
> -m, --mode=MODE set permission mode (as in chmod), not a=rw - umask
> --help display this help and exit
> --version output version information and exit
>
> Both MAJOR and MINOR must be specified when TYPE is b, c, or u, and they
> must be omitted when TYPE is p. If MAJOR or MINOR begins with 0x or 0X,
> it is interpreted as hexadecimal; otherwise, if it begins with 0, as octal;
> otherwise, as decimal. TYPE may be:
>
> b create a block (buffered) special file
> c, u create a character (unbuffered) special file
> p create a FIFO
>
> Report bugs to <bug-coreutils at gnu.org>.
>
> [root at dude dev]# file /dev/md1
> /dev/md1: block special (9/1)
> [root at dude dev]# file /dev/md0
> /dev/md0: block special (9/0)
> [root at dude dev]# file /dev/md5
> /dev/md5: block special (9/5)
> [root at dude dev]# mknod /dev/md2 b 9 2
> [root at dude dev]# ls /dev/md2
> /dev/md2
>
> Done!
>
> (If you don't have the array set to auto-start, you'll have to add the
> "mknod" command to your system startup scripts before trying to start
> the array directly)
>
> R.
>
Thanks Robin! This is exactly what I was looking for!
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