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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

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RAID Fails / Complains About Metadata

I noticed today I tried to create a new system using 'Software / Fake RAID' on Arch with the 'mdadm' utility. I have not done this for a year or so but realized that when I tried now on my new system, it failed and then I tried it again and read between the lines...

mdadm: Note: this array has metadata at the start and may not be suitable as a boot device. If you plan to store '/boot' on this device, please ensure that your boot-loader understands md/v1.x metadata, or use --metadata=0.90

So then I created my array as follows:

mdadm --create /dev/md0 --metadata=0.90 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2

Does anyone know if this will work or is there some fix that has been updated on the Wiki as of yet?

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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 560

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Re: RAID Fails / Complains About Metadata

Anyone?

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DonnyDonNothin

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From: Uzbekistan

Registered: 2010-10-07

Posts: 14

Re: RAID Fails / Complains About Metadata

maybe 2 months late.
boot works all good on raid1 if you add the --metadata=0.90 argument to your boot partition using the latest arch-64 netinstall. the fun part is preventing your swap partitions mounting as your /home directory on boot!

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