Hello Russell Yes it was "nr-spare-disks 1"
I just cut and copied setup from another machine and edited to illustrate my message. I missed the spare disks. :-( At least raidtools2 shouts very quickly when you do that (I know!). Thanks Ian On 27 Feb 2002, at 15:14, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:53, you wrote: > > when it should have been > > > > raiddev /dev/md0 > > raid-level 1 > > nr-raid-disks 2 > > nr-spare-disks 0 > > Surely that should be "nr-spare-disks 1"? > > > chunk-size 4 > > persistent-superblock 1 > > device /dev/hda5 > > raid-disk 0 > > device /dev/hdc5 > > failed-disk 1 > > device /dev/hde5 > > spare-disk 0 > > > > NB note the last line of each block. > > > > The man page shows and example but it is not clear on how the > > index numbers should be set. > > The man page for mdctl is worse... :( > > -- > If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines > of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do > whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by > posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Forbes ZSD http://www.zsd.co.za Office: +27 21 683-1388 Fax: +27 21 674-1106 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 46827, Glosderry, 7702, South Africa ---------------------------------------------------------------------
