Andre Noll wrote: > On 16:31, Peter Rabbitson wrote: > >> Is it possible that the following issue is related to your earlier >> patches: http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=123202024116493&w=2 > > I don't think this is possible because you are using Linux 2.6.24.7 > which does not contain any of the block -> sector conversion changes. > > Moreover, those changes should be invisible to userspace. In > particular, mdadm does not need to know whether the kernel uses blocks > or sectors for its internal representations. In fact, no changes to > mdadm were made wrt. the block -> sector conversions. > > Can you reproduce the incorrect output for the used device size > with the recent master branch of the mdadm git tree? > Hi Andre, Yes I can: root@Thesaurus:/home/rabbit/src/git/mdadm# ./mdadm --version mdadm - v2.6.8 - 28th November 2008 root@Thesaurus:/home/rabbit/src/git/mdadm# ./mdadm -E /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.1 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 6b11b1ba:78985745:b320fc1a:1db68bcf Name : Thesaurus:Crypta (local to host Thesaurus) Creation Time : Sat Mar 8 16:33:41 2008 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 578130828 (275.67 GiB 296.00 GB) Array Size : 1730162688 (825.01 GiB 885.84 GB) Used Dev Size : 576720896 (275.00 GiB 295.28 GB) Data Offset : 264 sectors Super Offset : 0 sectors State : active Device UUID : 85e0e62b:56129e5f:b0d82e78:2ace7d37 Update Time : Mon Jan 26 18:24:19 2009 Checksum : 61b214ff - correct Events : 772406 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 2048K Array Slot : 5 (failed, failed, 2, 3, 0, 1) Array State : uUuu 2 failed root@Thesaurus:/home/rabbit/src/git/mdadm# ./mdadm -D /dev/md5 /dev/md5: Version : 1.01 Creation Time : Sat Mar 8 16:33:41 2008 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 865081344 (825.01 GiB 885.84 GB) Used Dev Size : 576720896 (550.00 GiB 590.56 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Preferred Minor : 5 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Jan 26 18:24:34 2009 State : clean Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 2048K Name : Thesaurus:Crypta (local to host Thesaurus) UUID : 6b11b1ba:78985745:b320fc1a:1db68bcf Events : 772406 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 4 8 67 0 active sync /dev/sde3 5 8 1 1 active sync /dev/sda1 2 8 19 2 active sync /dev/sdb3 3 8 35 3 active sync /dev/sdc3 -- 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