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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: wilsonjonathan <piercing_male@hotmail.com>
Cc: Kenneth Emerson <kenneth.emerson@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md metadata nightmare
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 06:39:26 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111205063926.3d42cd1e@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP331AF211B9C3D0D1799003C98B40@phx.gbl>

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On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:31:06 +0000 wilsonjonathan <piercing_male@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> 
> > So I finished my backup and attempted to recreate the array using:
> > 
> > root@mythtv:/home/ken# mdadm -C /dev/md3 --metadata=1.0 --chunk=64k
> > --level=6 --raid-devices=5 missing /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdc4 /dev/sda4
> > /dev/sdd4 --assume-clean
> > 
> > and received the error:
> > 
> > mdadm: invalid chunk/rounding value: 64k
> > 
> > What do I do now?
> 
> Omit the "k" only M or G are allowed as the default is to assume K
> 

Not strictly accurate.  'K' is allowed, though not 'k'.  But the default is
definitely 'K', so with

  --chunk=64
or
  --chunk-64K

should work.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-04 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-23  0:05 md metadata nightmare Kenneth Emerson
2011-11-23  0:47 ` NeilBrown
2011-11-23  3:50   ` Phil Turmel
2011-11-23 15:35     ` CoolCold
     [not found]   ` <CADzwnhUJ7HbZH9yqa6x9sHFLo8Vg=1k_SyzvZyq2=iQ5YRLhZQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-23 22:36     ` NeilBrown
     [not found]       ` <CADzwnhXuW7ShBNGf+kqnZYrtRnWMPSRDWzb2h4Gt69Cih0-yGA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <CADzwnhUmHACPJA+c23AeRs3AW_ExuAUQST9jew_=5U1xdMqEFA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-03 17:02           ` Kenneth Emerson
     [not found]         ` <20111204061122.5bb5de4b@notabene.brown>
2011-12-04 17:20           ` Kenneth Emerson
2011-12-04 17:31             ` wilsonjonathan
2011-12-04 19:39               ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-12-05  5:05                 ` Kenneth Emerson
2011-11-23 22:38     ` Kenneth Emerson

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