Re: Possible to change chunk size on RAID-1 without re-init or destructive result?

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On 3/27/2013 11:01 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> From the manual
> 
>        -c, --chunk=
>               Specify  chunk size of kibibytes.  The default when creating an array is 512KB.  To ensure compatibility with ear‐
>               lier versions, the default when Building and array with no persistent metadata is 64KB.  This is  only  meaningful
>               for RAID0, RAID4, RAID5, RAID6, and RAID10.
> 
> meaning - chunk size isn't relevant to a mirror

The man page should be changed to explicitly state that --chunk does not
apply to RAID1 or --linear arrays.  Far too many people are having
trouble with this.  For those people the current docs are apparently too
subtle.

-- 
Stan

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