On Wednesday March 29, raziebe@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I was refering to bios reaching make_request in raid5.c . > I would be more precise. > I am dd'ing " dd if=/dev/md1 of=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1 skip=10" > I have added the following printk in make_request "printk ("%d:",bio->bi_size)" > I am getting sector sizes. 512:512:512:512:512.... > I suppose they gathered in the elevator, > but still why so small ? Odd.. When I try that I get 4096 repeatedly. Which kernel are you using? What does blockdev --getbsz /dev/md1 say? Do you have a filesystem mounted on /dev/md1? If so, what sort of filesystem. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html