From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zoltan Szecsei Subject: Re: Confusion with setting up new RAID6 with mdadm Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:06:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4CE11436.1010208@geograph.co.za> References: <4CE00206.4000301@geograph.co.za> <20101114195036.GA23982@maude.comedia.it> <4CE0D8B0.4050603@geograph.co.za> <20101115074125.GB5490@maude.comedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101115074125.GB5490@maude.comedia.it> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 2010-11-15 09:41, Luca Berra wrote: > btw to check sector size on a disk, on a fairly recent kernel you can > check the files under /sys/block/*/queue, > hw_sector_size 512 > minimum_io_size 512 > optimal_io_size 0 > > except for disks that lie about their sector size, but this is a > different story. >> root@gs0:/home/geograph# mdadm -V >> mdadm - v2.6.7.1 - 15th October 2008 > this mdadm release is a tad old (about two years), it will work, but > some things may be different than current 3.1.x > just downloaded the tarball for 3.1.4 and will have a crack at compilin= g it. Thanks ! Z --=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031] Geograph (Pty) Ltd. P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. 65 Main Road, Muizenberg 7945 Western Cape, South Africa. 34=B0 6'16.35"S 18=B028'5.62"E Tel: +27-21-7884897 Mobile: +27-83-6004028 =46ax: +27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1153 / Virus Database: 424/3257 - Release Date: 11/14/10 -- 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