From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Cc: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@aeoncomputing.com>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible to change chunk size on RAID-1 without re-init or destructive result?
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:11:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51534450.8050905@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16639206.20.1364400094382.JavaMail.root@zimbra>
On 3/27/2013 11:01 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> From the manual
>
> -c, --chunk=
> Specify chunk size of kibibytes. The default when creating an array is 512KB. To ensure compatibility with ear‐
> lier versions, the default when Building and array with no persistent metadata is 64KB. This is only meaningful
> for RAID0, RAID4, RAID5, RAID6, and RAID10.
>
> meaning - chunk size isn't relevant to a mirror
The man page should be changed to explicitly state that --chunk does not
apply to RAID1 or --linear arrays. Far too many people are having
trouble with this. For those people the current docs are apparently too
subtle.
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Stan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-27 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-27 5:30 Possible to change chunk size on RAID-1 without re-init or destructive result? Jeff Johnson
2013-03-27 5:56 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-03-27 6:02 ` Roman Mamedov
2013-03-27 16:01 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-03-27 16:23 ` Jeff Johnson
2013-03-27 16:44 ` Roman Mamedov
2013-03-27 19:36 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-27 19:11 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2013-03-27 19:23 ` Mark Knecht
2013-03-27 20:10 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-27 21:06 ` Mark Knecht
2013-03-27 22:08 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-27 22:18 ` Mark Knecht
2013-03-31 15:56 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-31 17:15 ` Mark Knecht
2013-03-31 17:41 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-31 17:56 ` Mark Knecht
2013-04-01 0:28 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-04-01 16:46 ` Mark Knecht
2013-04-02 1:15 ` Brad Campbell
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