Hello everyone,

I had a spare disk on my production server and I wanted to make the server to be on software raid 1 disks.
I have created a raid drive on the machine to be mounted as /tmp
(its on /dev/md0). I also want my / filesystem to be on raid 1 partition. Any suggestions? Is my kernel compiled with software raid support? How can I know that?
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[root@shakti ~]# uname -r
2.6.9-22.ELsmp



FDISK::-----------------
[root@shakti ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 268 2048287+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 269 399 1052257+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda4 400 8924 68477062+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 400 8924 68477031 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 14 268 2048287+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 269 399 1052257+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb4 400 8924 68477062+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 400 8924 68477031 83 Linux

Disk /dev/md0: 1077 MB, 1077411840 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 263040 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System


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MDADM DETAILS

[root@shakti ~]# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.01
Creation Time : Tue May 30 07:25:36 2006
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 1052160 (1027.50 MiB 1077.41 MB)
Device Size : 1052160 (1027.50 MiB 1077.41 MB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Tue May 30 07:53:17 2006
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0


Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 3 0 active sync /dev/sda3
1 8 19 1 active sync /dev/sdb3
UUID : c52739c3:5b470b1c:e8c6d152:aebe1777
Events : 0.16

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FSTAB

[root@shakti ~]# cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/md0 /tmp ext3 defaults,noexec 1 0 ##<<<<<
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0







Thanks in advance

Hello,

Forgot to throw some more stuff:--


DMESG
[root@shakti ~]# dmesg | grep md
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 185
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEA8 irq 185
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: considering sdb3 ...
md: adding sdb3 ...
md: adding sda3 ...
md: created md0
md: bind<sda3>
md: bind<sdb3>
md: running: <sdb3><sda3>
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
md: ... autorun DONE.
EXT3 FS on md0, internal journal


Please help