On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 02:22:48PM -0400, Phil Turmel wrote: > 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. not really, I read the whole device from scratch (without skip) and it read 8.8TB before it failed. It just takes 2 days to run, so it's a bit annoying to do repeatedly :) myth:/dev# dd if=/dev/md5 of=/dev/null bs=1GB skip=8790 dd: reading `/dev/md5': Invalid argument 7+0 records in 7+0 records out 7000000000 bytes (7.0 GB) copied, 76.7736 s, 91.2 MB/s It doesn't matter where I start, it fails exactly in the same place, and I can't skip over it, anything after that mark is unreadable. I can switch to GiB if you'd like, same thing: myth:/dev# dd if=/dev/md5 of=/dev/null bs=1GiB skip=8190 dd: reading `/dev/md5': Invalid argument 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 21.9751 s, 97.7 MB/s myth:/dev# dd if=/dev/md5 of=/dev/null bs=1GiB skip=8200 dd: reading `/dev/md5': Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000281885 s, 0.0 kB/s myth:/dev# dd if=/dev/md5 of=/dev/null bs=1GiB skip=8500 dd: reading `/dev/md5': Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000395691 s, 0.0 kB/s Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 1024R/763BE901 -- 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