[WBEL-users] multiple md devices & lvm

[Scott Silva]

Toby Bluhm wrote:
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> ---- "Kirby C. Bohling" <kbohling at birddog.com> wrote: 
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>>On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:10:57PM -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote:
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>>[snip description of the problem, and evidence I have it working]
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>>>>There are three ways to do this:
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>>It is important you include xor, if you tell it just RAID5, it will
>>include that, but when the add is attempted it'll fail because it
>>needs xort added.
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>># mkinitrd --with=raid5 --with=xor /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r` 
>># lilo -v
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> You're right, module xor is key to making it work.  It does work for me now.
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>>I haven't read what mkinitrd reads to find your modules.  My guess
>>is that it looks at /etc/raidtab (from quickly scanning the man
>>page).  You might try see if you have it in your /etc/raidtab.
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> I've been bypassing raidtab & using mdadm. I was under the (false it seems) impression mkinitrd would scan for loaded modules as part of its routine.
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>>If you makes you feel any better, I had to deal with all this at
>>least three times before I remember that's what the problem is now.
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>>	Thanks,
>>		Kirby
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> Thanks for the help.
AFAIK only the kernel install in the RPM scans for the loaded modules 
when it installs a new kernel. One of these days I am going to have to 
find how it calls mkinitrd.

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