Re: [RE]Incorrect length on via raid

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No, I an running Ubuntu Edgy which runs dmraid to detect raid sets at each boot from the initramfs.

James Olson wrote:
Hi Phillip,
Are you running and booting Fedora Core 5 from the raid0 array? From my experience newer versions of dmraid set the correct stripe size, but the problem is in getting the old stripe size updated. The old stripe size is located inside the init file in the initrd ramdisk image on FC5.
-James

---------[ Received Mail Content ]----------
 >Subject : Incorrect length on via raid
 >Date : Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:59:48 -0400
 >From : Phillip Susi
 >To : "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions"
 >
 >I have a via raid0 and with newer kernels dmraid fails to set up the
 >table because the device mapper refuses to accept stripe tables that
 >have a length that is not an even multiple of the stripe width. I
 >believe that all versions of dmraid up to and including rc12-pre1
 >incorrectly set the length on my system, but the on disk metadata
 >appears to contain the proper length.
 >
 >dmraid -n output shows:
 >
 >0x006 array.capacity_low: 72303744
 >
 >But dmsetup table shows:
 >
 >via_hfciifae: 0 144607678 striped 2 128 8:0 0 8:16 0
 >
 >The total length should be 144607488 sectors, not 144607678.
 >
 >
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