I don't know the internals of raidreconf, but how come it says: > I will SHRINK your old device /dev/md0 of 6863248 blocks > to a new device /dev/md0 of 6863240 blocks > using a block-size of 16 KB What is the difference between this block size and chunk size? Shouldn't it report something about the new 128 KB chunk size here? > -----Original Message----- > From: Jakob ¥×stergaard [mailto:jakob@unthought.net] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:06 PM > To: Cajoline > Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: raidreconf > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 01:31:43PM +0200, Cajoline wrote: > > Oh duh! I'm sorry, here's the file. > ... > > ... > I will SHRINK your old device /dev/md0 of 6863248 blocks > to a new device /dev/md0 of 6863240 blocks > using a block-size of 16 KB > Is this what you want? (yes/no): yes > Converting 6863248 block device to 6863240 block device > Allocated free block map for 3 disks > 3 unique disks detected. > Working (|) [05491707/06863248] [################################### > ] Out of Memory: Killed process 198 (exim). > Out of Memory: Killed process 252 (bash). > Out of Memory: Killed process 253 (bash). > Out of Memory: Killed process 339 (raidreconf). > Terminated > ... > > Ok - this is not a raidreconf problem - you are running a kernel with > a bad VM - the OOM killer kills raidreconf, and there's really nothing > raidreconf can do about it. > > You will probably see "cp" killed too, if you copy enough data, or > "dd" if you dd a lot of data between partitions. > > -- > ................................................................ > : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : > :.........................: putrid forms of man : > : Jakob ¨ªstergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : > : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : > :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
