create raid1 on a installed system

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Rashkae<ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> Asif Iqbal wrote:
>
>>
>> http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/Raid uses (uses mkinitrd)
>>
>
> this article is a bad resource.  Those tricks to make initrd work with
> SATA might have been needed on some old versions of Debian, but
> certainly not now.
>
> And unless you want to have to build your own initrd every time
> automatic updates run, then the idea to define the raid array in
> mdadm.conf doesn't make much sense.  Just let mdadm -a do it's thing,
> like magic.

mdadm is failing

# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/sdb1
mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy
mdadm: create aborted


[   80.385052] md: bind<sdb1>
[   80.385743] md: md_d0: raid array is not clean -- starting
background reconstruction
[   80.508838] raid1: raid set md_d0 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors
[   80.509277] md_d0: detected capacity change from 0 to 78526611456
[   80.509283]  md_d0: unknown partition table




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