From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: wilsonjonathan <piercing_male@hotmail.com>
Cc: Kenneth Emerson <kenneth.emerson@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md metadata nightmare
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 06:39:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111205063926.3d42cd1e@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP331AF211B9C3D0D1799003C98B40@phx.gbl>
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On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:31:06 +0000 wilsonjonathan <piercing_male@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > So I finished my backup and attempted to recreate the array using:
> >
> > root@mythtv:/home/ken# mdadm -C /dev/md3 --metadata=1.0 --chunk=64k
> > --level=6 --raid-devices=5 missing /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdc4 /dev/sda4
> > /dev/sdd4 --assume-clean
> >
> > and received the error:
> >
> > mdadm: invalid chunk/rounding value: 64k
> >
> > What do I do now?
>
> Omit the "k" only M or G are allowed as the default is to assume K
>
Not strictly accurate. 'K' is allowed, though not 'k'. But the default is
definitely 'K', so with
--chunk=64
or
--chunk-64K
should work.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-04 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-23 0:05 md metadata nightmare Kenneth Emerson
2011-11-23 0:47 ` NeilBrown
2011-11-23 3:50 ` Phil Turmel
2011-11-23 15:35 ` CoolCold
[not found] ` <CADzwnhUJ7HbZH9yqa6x9sHFLo8Vg=1k_SyzvZyq2=iQ5YRLhZQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-23 22:36 ` NeilBrown
[not found] ` <CADzwnhXuW7ShBNGf+kqnZYrtRnWMPSRDWzb2h4Gt69Cih0-yGA@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CADzwnhUmHACPJA+c23AeRs3AW_ExuAUQST9jew_=5U1xdMqEFA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-03 17:02 ` Kenneth Emerson
[not found] ` <20111204061122.5bb5de4b@notabene.brown>
2011-12-04 17:20 ` Kenneth Emerson
2011-12-04 17:31 ` wilsonjonathan
2011-12-04 19:39 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-12-05 5:05 ` Kenneth Emerson
2011-11-23 22:38 ` Kenneth Emerson
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