From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: KELEMEN Peter Subject: Re: Spares and partitioning huge disks Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:09:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20050111100901.GE32199@chihiro.cern.ch> References: <200501081749.32816.maarten@ultratux.net> <200501082001.09317.maarten@ultratux.net> <200501101734.24851.maarten@ultratux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501101734.24851.maarten@ultratux.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids * Maarten (maarten@ultratux.net) [20050110 17:34]: > P.S.: I get this filling up my logs. Should I be worried about that = ? > Jan 10 11:30:32 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 512= --> 4096 > Jan 10 11:30:33 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 409= 6 --> 512 > Jan 10 11:30:33 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 512= --> 4096 > Jan 10 11:30:36 dozer kernel: raid5: switching cache buffer size, 409= 6 --> 512 You have an internal XFS log on the RAID device and it is accessed in sector units by default, md is reporting the changes (harmless). Best workaround is to instruct your filesystem to use 4K sectors: mkfs.xfs -s size=3D4k HTH, Peter --=20 .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'= ' Kelemen P=C3=A9ter / \ / \ Peter.Kelemen@cer= n.ch =2E+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html