Hello, I have raid5 /dev/md1, --chunk=128 --metadata=1.1. On it I have created LVM volume called 'raid5', and finally a logical volume 'backup'. Then I formatted it with command: mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -E stride=32 -E resize=550292480 /dev/raid5/backup And because LVM is putting its own metadata on /dev/md1, the ext3 partition is shifted by some (unknown for me) amount of bytes from the beginning of /dev/md1. I was wondering, how big is the shift, and would it hurt the performance/safety if the `ext3 stride=32` didn't align perfectly with the physical stripes on HDD? PS: the resize option is to make sure that I can grow this fs in the future. PSS: I looked in the archive but didn't find this question asked before. I'm sorry if it really was asked. -- Janek Kozicki | - 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
