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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Lem <l3mming@iinet.net.au>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 producing fake partition table on single drive
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:55:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FC68A8.4010002@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156200453.19051.13.camel@fc6.xsintricity.com>

Doug Ledford wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 17:35 +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>Buffer I/O error on device sde3, logical block 1793
>>>      
>>>
>>This, on the other hand, might be a problem - though possibly only a
>>small one.
>>Who is trying to access sde3 I wonder.  I'm fairly sure the kernel
>>wouldn't do that directly.
>>    
>>
>
>It's the mount program collecting possible LABEL= data on the partitions
>listed in /proc/partitions, of which sde3 is outside the valid range for
>the drive.
>
>  
>
May I belatedly say that this is sort-of a kernel issue, since 
/proc/partitions reflects invalid data? Perhaps a boot option like 
nopart=sda,sdb or similar would be in order?

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-04 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-19 11:40 RAID5 producing fake partition table on single drive Lem
2006-08-21  7:35 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-21  8:03   ` Lem
2006-08-28  3:46     ` Neil Brown
2006-08-29  7:17       ` Lem
2006-08-21 22:47   ` Doug Ledford
2006-09-04 17:55     ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2006-09-05 16:49       ` Luca Berra
2006-09-10  5:59       ` Lem
2006-09-14 22:42         ` Bill Davidsen
2006-09-15  7:51           ` Lem
2006-09-15  8:29             ` Luca Berra

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