From 75a4a592e5ccda30715f93563d741b83e0dcf39e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:37:00 +0000 Subject: Slackware 13.37 Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011 Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released! Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team, the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing a great forum for collaboration and testing. The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription. As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions, and feedback. :-) Have fun! --- README_RAID.TXT | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'README_RAID.TXT') diff --git a/README_RAID.TXT b/README_RAID.TXT index 38f278287..ca423f77b 100644 --- a/README_RAID.TXT +++ b/README_RAID.TXT @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware RAID HOWTO -Version 1.00 -2008/04/29 +Version 1.01 +2011/03/15 by Amritpal Bath @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ by Amritpal Bath Contents =============================================================================== +- Changelog - Introduction - Warnings - Planning @@ -22,6 +23,17 @@ Contents +Changelog +=============================================================================== + +1.01 (2011/03/15): + - Added Robby Workman's --metadata edits per James Davies' tip. +1.00 (2008/04/09): + - Intitial release. + + + + Introduction =============================================================================== @@ -222,6 +234,10 @@ The parameters for each of these RAID commands specifies, in order: - the RAID level to use for this array (--level X) - how many devices (partitions) to use in the array (--raid-devices X) - the actual list of devices (/dev/sdaX /dev/sdbX /dev/sdcX) + - this is not present on all of them, but "--metadata=0.90" tells mdadm + to use the older version 0.90 metadata instead of the newer version; + you must use this for any array from which LILO will be loading a + kernel image, or else LILO won't be able to read from it. Start by creating the RAID array for your root filesystem. @@ -231,7 +247,7 @@ Start by creating the RAID array for your root filesystem. - RAID 1: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 1 --raid-devices 2 \ - /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 + /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 --metadata=0.90 - RAID 5: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 5 --raid-devices 3 \ @@ -260,11 +276,11 @@ RAID 1 users do not need to do this. - RAID 0: mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level 1 --raid-devices 2 \ - /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 + /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 --metadata=0.90 - RAID 5: mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level 1 --raid-devices 3 \ - /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 + /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 --metadata=0.90 We're all done creating our arrays! Yay! -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad