[RE]Incorrect length on via raid
Phillip Susi
psusi at cfl.rr.com
Mon Oct 16 14:28:59 UTC 2006
No, I an running Ubuntu Edgy which runs dmraid to detect raid sets at
each boot from the initramfs.
James Olson wrote:
> Hi Phillip,
> Are you running and booting Fedora Core 5 from the raid0 array? From my
> experience newer versions of dmraid set the correct stripe size, but the problem
> is in getting the old stripe size updated. The old stripe size is located inside
> the init file in the initrd ramdisk image on FC5.
> -James
>
> ---------[ Received Mail Content ]----------
> >Subject : Incorrect length on via raid
> >Date : Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:59:48 -0400
> >From : Phillip Susi
> >To : "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions"
> >
> >I have a via raid0 and with newer kernels dmraid fails to set up the
> >table because the device mapper refuses to accept stripe tables that
> >have a length that is not an even multiple of the stripe width. I
> >believe that all versions of dmraid up to and including rc12-pre1
> >incorrectly set the length on my system, but the on disk metadata
> >appears to contain the proper length.
> >
> >dmraid -n output shows:
> >
> >0x006 array.capacity_low: 72303744
> >
> >But dmsetup table shows:
> >
> >via_hfciifae: 0 144607678 striped 2 128 8:0 0 8:16 0
> >
> >The total length should be 144607488 sectors, not 144607678.
> >
> >
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