Hi guys, Thanks for your help. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:13 AM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:52:18 -0400 Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: **snip** >> Until recently, due to a long-standing bug, devices larger than 2T were >> not usable with v0.90 meta-data. I don't remember precisely when that >> bug was fixed, but I believe it was in the past year. There are also >> potential identification problems with v0.90 when used on the last >> partition of a device, but you have a misalignment warning that would >> prevent that. > > The bug was fixed in 3.1-rc6, (commit 27a7b260f71439c40546) I'm running 3.2 (3.2.0-31-generic, latest in current Ubuntu release 12.04) now. >> You should see that the used dev size is very close to 2TiB less than >> the actual size of your devices. >> >> First, try the latest stable mainline kernel that you can. That should >> let you back up your data. Unfortunately nothing's changed. The array still thinks it's small: [ 1.693557] --- level:5 rd:3 wd:3 [ 1.693559] disk 0, o:1, dev:sdb1 [ 1.693561] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdd1 [ 1.693562] disk 2, o:1, dev:sde1 [ 1.693593] md2: detected capacity change from 0 to 1603139141632 and the vg doesn't start: [ 1.778499] device-mapper: table: 252:0: md2 too small for target: start=384, len=11721064448, dev_size=3131131136 Cheers, Markus -- 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
