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["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM, James D. Parra <Jamesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Rebooting doesn't resolve the problem. Any ideas on how to restart the raid
> and tell md to use the XFS filesystem?

You do not tell md to use a certain filesystem. Md is just a
container, i.e. to the rest of the system /dev/md0 is no different
than a volume on a proper RAID controller. The filesystem type is
stored on the filesystem. What *CAN* happen is md-RAID breaks
(sometimes for no reason, due to a hardware failure or unclean
shutdown) or one of the That is what you are seeing,.. md thinks
/dev/md0 is broken so when you try to mount it, the system is not
seeing a valid filesystem because md is not feeding it one.

If it is RAID-1 you can mount the individual partitions using the
-t[ype] option to specify that your volume is XFS. I would suggest you
make a backup and reinstall using a better RAID implementation
(hardware.) Otherwise you can try (and fail) to make mdadm work... it
does not.
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