new kernel breaks striped dmraid

James Olson big_spender12 at lycos.com
Mon Apr 3 06:27:55 UTC 2006


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Kovacs" <mkovacs at shaw.ca>
> To: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions" <ataraid-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: new kernel breaks striped dmraid
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:33:02 -0800
> 
> 
> Dan wrote:
> > James Olson wrote:
> >>  Hello Heinz,
> >> I tried the newly updated redhat FC5 kernel 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 and # dmraid -ay fails with a 
> >> kernel error:
> >> Mar 30 05:59:04 localhost kernel: device-mapper: dm-stripe: Target length not divisible by 
> >> chunk size
> >> Mar 30 05:59:04 localhost kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to table
> >>
> >> I think this is related to the "dm stripe: Fix bounds" patch shown at
> >>
> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/16/120
> >>
> >> I am running:
> >> dmraid version:         1.0.0.rc10 (2006.02.17) debug
> >> dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc10 (2006.02.17)
> >> device-mapper version:  4.5.0
> >>
> >>           -James
> >>
> >>
> > Same problem here, but since I'm booting from dmraid-accessed drives, it's a bit more of a 
> > problem. Bug report:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187371
> > -Dan
> Mine works fine, dmraid stripe set on a  Promise Fasttrack ATAraid  Controller and FC5 kernel 
> 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5. However, I am not booting from the array.
> 
> Michael
Hi Michael,
You are correct.  Seems that the new kernel doesn't break promise metadata striped dmraids (I tried it).  It does break sil 680 though and I think the other guy said he had the problem on nvidia.
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