On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 12:06 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2009-08-03T09:34:53, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 01:08 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > > > > > > The above complains about sector 3907028974 which is exactly > > > 19566 sectors greater than the size of the raid array according > > > to parted. In other words it appears to be an access to the last > > > sector of the array. > > > > If it's a read beyond the end of a partition, then it's possible it got > > rejected in the partition checking logic before ever reaching the I/O > > controller (which would explain why no messages from the fusion in the > > log). > > > > However, I don't think the analysis is correct. Parted says > > > > > > > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > > > 1 34s 19565s 19532s bios_grub > > > 2 19566s 3907029134s 3907009569s ext3 raid > > > > So the absolute sector number 3907028974 is within partition 2. > > I was actually trying to make a different point. Namely that it > was curious that the error message complains about sector > 3907028974 which is exactly the size of the array + 19566, or in > other words 1 sector past the end of array: That's where md stores its superblock ... but it's still within the partition. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
