> > I setup a 700GB file system on a Compaq Alpha box running RedHat 7.1 > > with all patches (kernel 2.4.9-31smp). I set it up as a linear device > > containing two 12 disk RAID5 stripes (1 disk in each as a hot spare). > > I also have a 4 disk RAID5 with one disk as a hot spare. > > > > When I reboot the fsck for the smaller volume is fine, but the fsck > > for the big filesystem fails saying something to the effect that the > > file system reports having more blocks than the device does. I am > > using a 32K chunk size and newfs'ed the volume using: > > > > mke2fs -B 4096 -R stride=8 /dev/md2 > > > > I can still mount the file system just fine and I did an fsck by hand > > using 'fsck -C -f -a /dev/md2' and it reported no errors. I've tried > > building the file system a couple times and it's always the same. > > When I built it using just one of the RAID5 strips it works fine. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > Chris Could this be my issue? I'm using e2label to mount this file system. I noticed since this is a concat both /dev/md0 and /dev/md2 appear to have this label. So I'm guessing that fsck I'm getting the first device to show up (/dev/md0) which is only half the volume? Chris - 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
