"Drew 'Cheetah!' Maxwell" schrieb:
>
> Hello there.
>
> I have been using the SGI XFS releases for some time now, and it has
> come to be that we want to include some fault tolerance for our
> filesystems in the form of RAID mirroring. It seems to be giving us a
> fair bit of problems in doing so, however.
I don't know whats going on in your case but setting up Software RAID at
install time has always worked for me with the RH-7.1-XFS-1.0(+.1)
installer. Maybe you have to check you CD's? Did you try to you fdisk
and setup some partitions with type fd and then using the installer to
just create the RAID?
-Simon
> In using the CD-ROM's installer, the 'Make RAID Devices' section of the
> partition phase in Disk Druid was missing, so instead, I tried using
> KickStart:
>
> In using KickStart, the following lines were included in ks.cfg:
>
> part raid.01 --size 3000 --ondisk hda
> part raid.02 --size 3000 --ondisk hdc
> part swap --size 1000 --ondisk hda
> part swap --size 1000 --ondisk hdc
> part raid.11 --size 3000 --ondisk hda
> part raid.12 --size 3000 --ondisk hdc
> part raid.21 --size 10 --grow --ondisk hda
> part raid.22 --size 10 --grow --ondisk hdc
> raid / --level 1 --device md0 raid.01 raid.02
> raid /var --level 1 --device md1 raid.11 raid.12
> raid /home --level 1 --device md2 raid.21 raid.22
>
> As per the RedHat 7.1 Manuals, this is the correct method for setting up
> mirrored RAID devices. However, when this is used, anaconda complains
> with the following error:
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ?
> intf.run(todo, test = test)
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1151, in
> run
> rc = apply (step[1](), args)
> File
> "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/partitioning_text.py",
> line 135, in __call__
> todo.lilo.allowLiloLocationConfig(todo.fstab)
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/lilo.py", line 154, in
> allowLiloLocationConfig
> bootDevice = fstab.getBootDevice()
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 267, in
> getBootDevice
> for (mntpoint, partition, fsystem, doFormat, size) in
> self.mountList():
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 1052, in
> mountList
> if fsType == "swap": continue
> NameError: fsType
>
> (I have the anaconda dump as well, if more information is required.)
>
> Any thoughts/caveats/suggestions for making the SGI XFS 1.0.1 version of
> RedHat Linux
> set up RAID mirroring from install time?
>
> Thank you.
>
> --Drew 'Cheetah!' Maxwell [cheetah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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