Holy Handgrenades it works!! Many thanks to richcoosa19 for proving to me that the OS saw the array properly which left me to hunt down the udev scenario. NOTED: I don't know why udev doesn't like my array, however after running the mknod script I found on the net:
Code:
cat /proc/partitions | grep "^ .* sd[a-z]" | sed -e 's/ \+/ /g;' |
while read line
do
set $line
echo "creating device node $4 ($1 $2)"
/bin/mknod /dev/$4 b $1 $2 >/dev/null 2>&1
done
My /dev/sdb was properly created allowing me to cfdisk and mkresierfs like I need.
Also of note, I don't know if after a reboot it'll recognize the partition now that it's been formatted or if I'll have to rerun the mknod script until I can fix the udev rules. The whole reason for the RAID array is to allow me to do video editing for a project that I need to have done by Christmas (YEAH, EXACTLY) so now that I have it working I'll poke it with a stick later.
!NOTE! Just as a quickie benchmark I did a `hdparm -tT /dev/sdb` and these were my results:
Code:
# hdparm -tT /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 2032 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1015.14 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 240 MB in 3.00 seconds = 79.91 MB/sec
# hdparm -tT /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 2000 MB in 2.00 seconds = 999.15 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 246 MB in 3.01 seconds = 81.77 MB/sec
Am I being greedy or am I right to expect more from my 3 disk SATA II RAID 5?? Also here's another question, I add another disk of X size, is reiserfs going to be able to handle that or will I need to use a non-journaled filesystem that maybe doesn't keep track of such things??
Again, many thanks to all and to all a good nite!!
-TomaCzar
