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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Invalid argument when creating a RAID-0 array
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:02:14 +1000
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In-Reply-To: message from Ari Pollak on Saturday June 14
To: Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>
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On Saturday June 14, ari@debian.org wrote:
> [Please CC me on replies]
> 
> I am currently trying to create a RAID-0 array using 5 SCSI drives with 
> raidtools2 on Debian but it is failing. Any input would be appreciated. 
> When I run 'mkraid /dev/md0', I get the following:
> 
....
>          chunk-size     4
....
> 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?

NeilBrown