From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maurice Subject: Re: mdadm striped parity RAID with Advanced Format drives Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:31:56 -0600 Message-ID: <4E2A40AC.8080107@gmail.com> References: <201107211011.40151.polhallen@fuckaround.org> <4E27FECE.8010201@hardwarefreak.com> <4E280AEF.4020801@hardwarefreak.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E280AEF.4020801@hardwarefreak.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 7/21/2011 5:18 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > ..Ok. Pol, keep in mind that all drives must be identical size when > creating an array on raw disks. That always makes me nervous. I have seen the case before where a drive has been "kicked out" and when you go to add it back, it is refused as "too small" Grown defects have shrunk the device. I find it is safer to make one big partition on each device, and make this a bit smaller than the device. -- Cheers, Maurice Hilarius eMail: /mhilarius@gmail.com/