From: Jeff Morrow <jmorrow@jmorrow.org>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Missing capacity in a RAID 5 array?
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 23:04:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4099D554.808@jmorrow.org> (raw)
I've created a software RAID 5 array consisting of 8 160 GB drives. One
of the drives had prior data I wanted to keep, so I first created a
7-drive array, copied the data from the original drive to the array,
then added the 8th drive using raidreconf. Worked like a charm (took
about 27 hours, though!)
The OS now reports that the total capacity on /dev/md0 is about 920 GB:
/dev/md0 923029884 172872252 750157632 19% /mnt/store
Now, even if we take into account that the drives are 160 decimal GB,
which equates to 149 binary GB, my array should still have a total
capacity somewhere around 7 x 149 = 1043 GB.
Am I really losing 120 GB to reserved space for RAID and/or filesystem
accounting? I feel like I'm missing something obvious here. Can I get
my full terabyte somehow?
Here's my /etc/raidtab:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 8
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
parity-algorithm left-symmetric
chunk-size 32
device /dev/hdc
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdd
raid-disk 1
device /dev/hde
raid-disk 2
device /dev/hdg
raid-disk 3
device /dev/hdh
raid-disk 4
device /dev/hdi
raid-disk 5
device /dev/hdk
raid-disk 6
device /dev/hdf
raid-disk 7
And here's my /proc/mdstat:
Personalities : [raid5]
md0 : active raid5 hdf[7] hdk[6] hdi[5] hdh[4] hdg[3] hde[2] hdd[1] hdc[0]
1094035712 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/8] [UUUUUUUU]
unused devices: <none>
Thanks for the help.
Jeff Morrow
next reply other threads:[~2004-05-06 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-06 6:04 Jeff Morrow [this message]
2004-05-06 6:12 ` Missing capacity in a RAID 5 array? Brad Campbell
2004-05-06 14:30 ` Derek Vadala
2004-05-06 6:47 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2004-05-06 17:10 ` Jeff Morrow
2004-05-06 10:18 ` Juri Haberland
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