On 11/04/2016 02:18 PM, Marc MERLIN wrote: > Right, so I thought I was home free, but not even close. My array is > back up, the badblock feature is disabled, array reports clean, but I > cannot access data past 8.8TB, it just fails. > > myth:~# dd if=/dev/md5 of=/dev/null bs=1GB skip=8797 > dd: reading `/dev/md5': Invalid argument > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000403171 s, 0.0 kB/s > myth:~# dd if=/dev/md5 of=/dev/null bs=1GB skip=8796 > dd: reading `/dev/md5': Invalid argument > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 1000000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 10.5817 s, 94.5 MB/s That has nothing to do with MD. You are using a power of ten suffix in your block size, so you are running into non-aligned sector locations. -- 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