My problem is that I am getting an incorrect superblock when booting a RAID1 mirror. I have tried many things and so I will outline my procedure to see if there is something I missed and to see if there is something I did wrong. I do not have
raidtools so 90% of the documentation out there cannot be applied to me. togami.com/~warren/guides/remoteraidcrazies/ <--- This page was as close as any document has come to helping me with this process.
This whole procedure was performed after booting a Live CD with none of the SATA drives mounted.
My setup plan:
/dev/sda is the pre-existing
master and the drive I am wanting to mirror
from. So data in the synch should flow sda -> sdb.
Code:
/dev/sda1 -> /dev/md0 (ext3) - to be "/boot"
/dev/sdb1 -> /dev/md0 (ext3) - to be "/boot"
/dev/sda2 -> /dev/md1 (swap)
/dev/sdb2 -> /dev/md1 (swap)
/dev/sda3 -> /dev/md2 (ext3) - to be "/"
/dev/sdb3 -> /dev/md2 (ext3) - to be "/"
Procedure:
To create the array:
I fdisked the
/dev/sdb drive and made sure it was exactly like
/dev/sda. I then ran
mkfs.ext3 for
/dev/sdb1 and
/dev/sdb3, and ran
mkswap for
/dev/sdb2. Now that the drives were identical in their partition scehem I changed the filesystem type to "fd" for both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Next I created the array:
Code:
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3
After issuing
cat /proc/mdstat I saw that all drives were sync'ed properly (they all had [UU]). With the drives now sync'ed I moved on to mounting what is to be the root and boot partitions:
Code:
mount /dev/md2 /mnt/sysimage
Code:
mount /dev/md0 /mnt/sysimage/boot
I then chroot'ed to the environment and changed the
/etc/fstab file and the
/boot/grub/grub.conf file.
Code:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
Here I removed
LABEL=/ and
LABEL=/boot for / and /boot mountpoints respectively. I replaced these lines with the following:
Code:
/dev/md2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/md0 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
Since these drives were apparently labeled I de-labeled them:
Code:
e2label /dev/sda1 ""
e2label /dev/sda3 ""
e2label /dev/sdb1 ""
e2label /dev/sdb3 ""
Here I added a kernel and initrd that reflected my system:
Code:
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core 4 RAID1 (2.6.12-1.1398_FCsmp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FCsmp ro root=/dev/md0
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FCsmp-RAID1.img
title Fedora Core 4 (2.6.12-1.1398_FCsmp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FCsmp ro root=/dev/sda1
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FCsmp.img
Since I wanted to be sure I had RAID1 loading on boot I built the ramdisk mentioned in the
Code:
/boot/grub/grub.conf
above:
Code:
mkinitrd --preload raid1 --with=raid1 /initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FCsmp-RAID1.img 2.6.12-1.1398_FCsmp
Everything was ready, as far as I could tell, so I rebooted and got the message that the superblock did not match and a prompt for an emergency shell was give as an option. This also made the array out-of-sync and so I rebooted to the Live CD, sync'ed the drives with the procedure described above, and ran an
e2fsck on them.
Code:
e2fsck /dev/sda1
e2fsck /dev/sdb3
e2fsck /dev/sdb1
e2fsck /dev/sdb3
None of this worked and I still get the message. Can anyone help? I do not have a backup drive to store all of the data or I would simply re-install Linux with the RAID1 already in place. Any ideas? THANKS!
