Re: Confusion with setting up new RAID6 with mdadm

[Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@geograph.co.za>]

On 2010-11-15 09:41, Luca Berra wrote:
> btw to check sector size on a disk, on a fairly recent kernel you can
> check the files under /sys/block/*/queue,
> hw_sector_size
512
> minimum_io_size
512
> optimal_io_size
0
>
> except for disks that lie about their sector size, but this is a
> different story.
>> root@gs0:/home/geograph# mdadm -V
>> mdadm - v2.6.7.1 - 15th October 2008
> this mdadm release is a tad old (about two years), it will work, but
> some things may be different than current 3.1.x
>
just downloaded the tarball for 3.1.4 and will have a crack at compiling it.


Thanks !

Z


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