Re: md + xfs (fwd)

[Simon Matter <simon.matter@ch.sauter-bc.com>]

Mihai RUSU schrieb:
> 
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Seth Mos wrote:
> 
> >
> > I think that the raid device has a older state in which the filesystem was
> > clean. But this one is rather awkward. I don't think it is normally possible.
> >

When booting a RedHat system with softraid, the linuxrc script looks
something like this:

#!/bin/nash
 
echo "Loading raid1 module"
insmod /lib/raid1.o
mount -t proc /proc /proc
echo Mounting /proc filesystem
echo Creating root device
mkrootdev /dev/root
raidautorun /dev/md0
echo 0x0100 > /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
umount /proc
echo Mounting root filesystem
mount --ro -t xfs /dev/root /sysroot
pivot_root /sysroot /sysroot/initrd

The mount command is a builtin command of /bin/nash, maybe this explains
the different behaviour. I hope one of the gurus can explain it to us.

Simon

> 
> That is why I asked here in the first place. I was not sure about how
> RAID1 on linux works but it seems to me that when a crash occured it
> choses one of the RAID1 images and rebuilds from that, but I am afraid
> that maybe in that state only the databytes that tell XFS it is clean,
> where set right, and other fs structures are corupt.
> 
> I should xfscheck that partition but I would really prefer to do that when
> all other fails (beeing a production server).
> 
> ----------------------------
> Mihai RUSU
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