From: maurice <mhilarius@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mdadm striped parity RAID with Advanced Format drives
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:31:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2A40AC.8080107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E280AEF.4020801@hardwarefreak.com>
On 7/21/2011 5:18 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> ..Ok. Pol, keep in mind that all drives must be identical size when
> creating an array on raw disks.
That always makes me nervous.
I have seen the case before where a drive has been "kicked out" and when
you go to add it back, it is refused as "too small"
Grown defects have shrunk the device.
I find it is safer to make one big partition on each device, and make
this a bit smaller than the device.
--
Cheers,
Maurice Hilarius
eMail: /mhilarius@gmail.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-23 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <201107211011.40151.polhallen@fuckaround.org>
2011-07-21 10:26 ` mdadm striped parity RAID with Advanced Format drives Stan Hoeppner
2011-07-21 10:27 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-21 11:18 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-07-21 11:23 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-23 3:31 ` maurice [this message]
2011-07-23 7:11 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-07-23 15:38 ` maurice
2011-07-23 15:58 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-23 18:03 ` maurice
2011-07-25 8:41 ` Nikolay Kichukov
2011-07-25 18:57 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-07-21 10:46 ` Pol Hallen
2011-07-22 7:13 ` Luca Berra
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