HP Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Licenses User Manual

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Disk /dev/sddlmaa: 5368 MB, 5368709120 bytes

166 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 10292 * 512 = 5269504 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sddlmaa1 1 1018 5238597 83 Linux

Command (m for help): w

The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

Syncing disks.

Also perform the above operation for /dev/sddlmab.

2

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Create an md device.
In the following example, RAID1 (mirroring) is used for the md device:

# mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/sddlmaa1 /dev/sddlmab1

mdadm: /dev/sddlmaa1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system

size=5238592K mtime=Fri Jan 25 19:26:25 2008

mdadm: /dev/sddlmab1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system

size=5238592K mtime=Fri Jan 25 19:27:07 2008

Continue creating array? y

mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.

3

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Make sure that the md device has been installed in HDLM.
In the following example, RAID1 (mirroring) is used for the md device:

# cat /proc/mdstat

Personalities : [raid1]

md0 : active raid1 sddlmaa1[0] sddlmab1[1]

5238528 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

Make sure that md0 : active and the HDLM devices are displayed.

4

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If necessary, back up the configuration file.
If the configuration file /etc/mdadm.conf has already been created,

execute the following command to create a backup:

# cp -pr /etc/mdadm.conf /etc/mdadm.conf.backup

5

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Execute the following command to create a configuration file:

# echo "DEVICE /dev/sddlmaa1 /dev/sddlmab1" >> /etc/mdadm.conf

# mdadm --detail --scan | grep -w "/dev/md0" >> /etc/mdadm.conf

For sddlmaa1 and sddlmab1, specify the HDLM devices corresponding to
md0, which was displayed in step 3.
The following example shows the contents of the created configuration

file:

# cat /etc/mdadm.conf

DEVICE /dev/sddlmaa1 /dev/sddlmab1

ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2

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Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (for Linux®) User Guide

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