From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Invalid argument when creating a RAID-0 array
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 19:04:18 -0400
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>>[Please CC me on replies]

>>too small chunk_size: 4096 < 8192
> 
> 
> Maybe use a bigger chunk size, 4K is rather small.
> However I thought 4k would work.  Maybe you aren't using an i386, as
> the minimum chunksize is currently connected with the system
> pagesize.  What architecture are you using?

Oops, I forgot to specify. I'm using an UltraSPARC on a Sun Enterprise 
450, using kernel 2.4.19 (I haven't had a chance to try .21 yet). I was 
just following the Software-RAID HOWTO, which said that for striping, 
chunksize didn't really matter.