Subject: Re: raid10 construction
To: david kwok <dkwok@iware.com.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/27/2001 16:15:42
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:09:48PM +0000, david kwok wrote:
> My current NetBSD version is NetBSD-1.5.1_BETA2.
> 
> I have constructed the first layer ok, ie the raid1 set for 2 pairs of
> disks, wd0 & wd2, wd1 & wd3.
> 
> Disklabel for wd0 & wd2 is:
> 
> a:  500M  4.2BSD    #boot partition
> c:27000M   unused   #
> e:  500M   RAID     #swap, raid0
> f: 2000M   RAID     #/   , raid1 
> g:27000M   RAID     #to be stripped with second set, raid2
> 
> Disklabel for wd1 & wd3 is
> 
> c:15000M    unused
> d:15000M    unused
> e:15000M    RAID    # to be stripped with first set, raid3
> 
> Now I am stuck with how to proceed after completing the installation of
> raid0, raid1, raid2 and raid3.
> 
> I have read the man page about raid on raid.
> 
> It shows how the raid.conf should be scripted. However I cannot set the
> disklabel of the raid disk as this:
> 
> d: 27000M   0   unused
> e: 27000M   0   RAID
> 
> When I do disklabel -R -r raid2 /root/disklabel.raid2
> The error message is:
> disklabel: waring, unused partition e: size 27000M offset 0

I suspect your file has a line like:
4 partitions:

Change this to '8'

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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