Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Hi,
RAID levels 0 and 4 do not seem to like the -b internal. Is this
intentional? Runs 2.6.20.2 on i586.
(BTW, do you already have a PAGE_SIZE=8K fix?)
14:47 ichi:/dev # mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l 4 -e 1.0 -b internal -n 2 /dev/ram[01]
mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Input/output error
mdadm: stopped /dev/md0
14:47 ichi:/dev # mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l 0 -e 1.0 -b internal -n 2 /dev/ram[01]
mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Cannot allocate memory
mdadm: stopped /dev/md0
Right... md: bitmaps not supported for this level.
Bitmaps show what data has been modified but not written. For RAID-0
there is no copy, therefore there can be no bitmap to show what "still
needs to be updated." I would have thought that RAID-4 would support
bitmaps, but maybe it was just never added because use of RAID-4 is
pretty uncommon.
BTW: RAID-4 seems to work fine with an external bitmap. Were you trying
to do "internal?"
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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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