From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Alessandro Baretta <alexbaretta@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linear mode: array size is less than sum of sizes
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:13:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B439D5E.2010107@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B439BC8.1030908@anonymous.org.uk>
On 05/01/2010 20:06, John Robinson wrote:
> On 05/01/2010 18:21, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
>> Hi guys.
>>
>> I have a bizarre problem. Hopefully someone will provide some insight.
> [...]
>> As you can see the computed size is 67 sectors less than the reported
>> size. What happened to those sectors?
>
> At the very least md linear mode will round down the constituent devices
[...]
Try playing with dm instead of md - `man dmsetup` suggests it may be
able to do a linear concatenation in single-sector amounts...
Cheers,
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-05 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-05 18:21 Linear mode: array size is less than sum of sizes Alessandro Baretta
2010-01-05 20:06 ` John Robinson
2010-01-05 20:13 ` John Robinson [this message]
2010-01-05 23:02 ` Alessandro Baretta
2010-01-05 23:01 ` Alessandro Baretta
2010-01-06 22:14 ` Alessandro Baretta
2010-01-07 0:33 ` John Robinson
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