[NTLUG:Discuss] [Fwd: [charlug] Suse Server 9 and Linux RAID]

[Chris Cox]

David Simmons wrote:
> Maybe some of the many SuSE guru's here can give this one a shot?
> (please cc: the original poster/group).   Dave
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Eddie Dukes <edukes at cogsdill.com>
> Reply-To: discuss at charlug.org
> Subject: [charlug] Suse Server 9 and Linux RAID
> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:53:27 -0400
> I have two primary problems setting up a server using Suse Enterprise 
> Server 9.  I'll give system background first:
> 
...
> 
> ...I looked around and at root, I found a 
> folder called Data1.  In that location I found all directories I thought 
> had been created at /mnt/raid.
> 
> ...   After another restart of the Linux box,  the created folders 
> have moved yet again,  now to   /home.   That was Monday and things have 
> not changed since then.    I'm assuming the created directories are 
> still actually residing on the RAID partioned and that the   /home  
> directory is just the access point.

The samba stuff is probably fixable... but this floating directory
thing is not good at all.  My guess is that the boot drive is constant,
but the others are somehow getting switched around or something.
SLES9 should allow for partition labels (ala ext2) even on reiserfs,
that might be a good way of locating the partitions and getting
them to their correct mount points.  Doesn't address the root cause,
but might at least make things functional/predictable.

On an existing reiserfs, you might be able to:
reiserfstune -l myraid /dev/<name-of-raid-device>

then /etc/fstab could have:

LABEL=myraid   /mnt/raid  reiserfs   defaults,etc...etc...

HTH,
Chris