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DateMon, 9 Mar 1998 17:41:05 +0100 (MET)
FromTomas Lund <>
SubjectRe: 2.1.8* kernels and md raid0 [can't even mke2fs]
I have a serious problem with 2.1 and md too.

/etc/mdtab looks like this:
# mdtab entry for /dev/md0
/dev/md0        raid0,8k,0,53200828     /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1

and mdadd/mdrun works fine:

#mdadd -a
REGISTER_DEV sde1 to md0 done
REGISTER_DEV sdf1 to md0 done
REGISTER_DEV sdg1 to md0 done

#mdrun -a
raid0 personality registered
raid0 : Allocating 8 bytes for hash.

but mke2fs fails miserably:

#mke2fs /dev/md0
....
Warning: could not write 8 blocks starting at 3948805 for inode table: No such file or directory
Warning: could not write 8 blocks starting at 3948813 for inode table: No such file or directory
Warning: could not write 8 blocks starting at 3948821 for inode table: No such file or directory
 483/ 774Warning: could not write 8 blocks starting at 3956765 for inode table: No such file or directory
Warning: could not write 8 blocks starting at 3956773 for inode table: No such file or directory
Warning: could not write 8 blocks starting at 3956781 for inode table: No such file or directory
Warning: could not write 8 blocks starting at 3956789 for inode table: No such file or directory
Warning: could not write 8 blocks starting at 3956797 for inode table: No such file or directory
...screen after screen after screen of this...

changeing the md to use /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg has no effect. using
the drives standalone works 100%

....any ideas?
clean 2.1.89, md 0.35

Drives are 3 of theese:

kernel:   Vendor: QUANTUM   Model: FIREBALL ST2.1S Rev: 0F0C
kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kernel: Detected scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0

Best regards, Tomas


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