Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3



Richard,

On Thursday 18 October 2007 03:19:07 pm Richard Creighton wrote:
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Doing a clean install of opensuse 10.3. Again the first drive is /swap
(2 GB) /boot (/ext2 50MB) and /storage (ext3 300GB or so). Drives 2-4
are md0 (460GB ext3) intended to be /

As Yast is formatting /, at the end of the process I get the following
message:

Formatting software RAID /dev/md0 (465.7 GB) with ext3
System error code was -3008
/sbin/mke2fs -O div_index -j -v /dev/md0:
mke2fs 1.40.2 (12-jul-2007)
ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
read while creating root dir.

I tried the installation a second time and got the identical error
message.

I then tried using reiserfs instead of ext3. but got the follwoing error.

Failure occurred during following action
Mounting /dev/md0 to /
System error code was -3003
mount -t reiserfs -oacl user_xattr /dev/md0 /mnt
mount: erro wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0
missing codepage or helper program, or other error

Motherboard is a TYAN S2925G2NR with nvidia nforce 3400 professional
northbridge and Western Digital CAviar SATA I drives, all new. I ran
memtest for about 4 hours, two complete passes and on the third with no
errors prior to installing. SMART and the BIOS all indicate the hard
drives are good.

Googling on "short read" raid 5 errors and so forth didn't yield anything
useful. Any ideas would be appreciated. I could try other filesystems,
or i could try designating the RAID 5 as home. it is working fine as ?
in my current system.

Mike

Dunno about the short read...and under the assumption you are using MD
raid, or 'software raid' rather than a motherboard controller
'fake-raid' controller and some forme of DM raid.

My configuration is totally contained in the following
http://www.ricreig.com/pub/PartnTbl.png but if you would rather use a
partition for swap rather than raid 0, just reserve the space as a
primary partition and not assign it as a MD device and add the necessary
adjustments in /fstab. I would make the /boot the first physical
partition. The arrangement I am using works well. I use EXT3
formatting. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply. i am indeed using software RAID, not any RAID included
with the motherboard. Your configuration is much more complicated than mine,
and your RAID 5 is much larger than mine, so no reason mine shouldn't work.
I will double check settings in my BIOS to make sure it isn't causing
problems. I don't think I will put swap and boot on RAID, just /. looking
at your setup, I couldn't see anything I did wrong.

Mike

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