[Gllug] Raid things

[Huw Lynes]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 14:49 +0000, Rich Walker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some time ago, I posted a query about performance of an NEC DVD-RW on an
> ALI IDE chipset. The suggestion at the time was "move to a 2.6 kernel."
> 
> For various reasons to do with problems with interaction between LVM and
> MD, I've only just done this, but it worked a treat: burning DVD's no
> longer brings the machine to a halt.
> 
> The problem with the interaction between LVM and MD was (mostly) fixed
> by telling LVM to exclude the RAID array components - now that bit no
> longer breaks horribly.

> 
> Is there a reason why it ignores /dev/hdf2?

can you post /proc/mdstat?

And what happens if you manually add /dev/hdf2 using mdadm?

e.g:

mdadm --manage /dev/md[whatever] --add /dev/hdf2

Huw

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