On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 01:16:01PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Karel Zak wrote: > > # mdadm --create /dev/md8 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdb{1,2,3,4} > > That's 3-disk stripe size with default 64Kb chunk size, which makes > 3x64=320KiB - the number to which everything should be aligned. > > > # fdisk -lcu /dev/md8 > > > > Disk /dev/md8: 1572 MB, 1572667392 bytes > > 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 383952 cylinders, total 3071616 sectors > > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes > > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 65536 bytes / 65536 bytes > > And here we go: fdisk does not see the right number: nothing > is dividable by 3. Well, the same setup with 2.6.34-0.9.rc0.git13.fc14.x86_64: # fdisk -luc /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 2621 MB, 2621440000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 318 cylinders, total 5120000 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 32768 bytes Disk identifier: 0x77fbab55 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 1026048 2050047 512000 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 2050048 3074047 512000 83 Linux /dev/sdb4 3074048 4098047 512000 83 Linux # mdadm --create /dev/md8 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdb{1,2,3,4} # fdisk -luc /dev/md8 Disk /dev/md8: 1572 MB, 1572667392 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 383952 cylinders, total 3071616 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 65536 bytes / 65536 bytes # cat /sys/block/md8/queue/{minimum,optimal}_io_size 65536 65536 > > # cat /sys/block/md8/md8p{1,2}/alignment_offset > > 0 > > 0 > > And that's where the issue is. md does not {sup,re}port all > this stuff yet. Hmm... Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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