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Slackware RAID HOWTO
-Version 1.00
-2008/04/29
+Version 1.01
+2011/03/15
by Amritpal Bath <amrit@slackware.com>
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ by Amritpal Bath <amrit@slackware.com>
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!