Re: dmraid 1.0.0rc5/6 and device-mapper: Cannot get geometry

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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:27:12AM +0100, Koerner, Sebastian wrote:
> Is the device-mapper system regarded "fully functional" on Kernel 2.6.8?
> I have a Stripe-Set on ICH5R that is activated with dmraid (1.0.0-rc6).
> I created several partitions there. I could format the 40GB ext3 Partition 
> but mkfs.dosfs -F32 /dev/mapper/isw....1 gave me a message like "cannot 
> get geometry" on a 2GB and a 40GB Partition.

Yes, it is but you hit a problem mkfs.dosfs shows with geometries
exposed by device-mapper (you'll see the same behaviour on Logical
Volumes created with LVM2).

Try playing with -C.

> 
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