I got in trouble trying to mount RAID0 drives from brocen HW
controller. The mdadm utility is locked to 4k stripe minimum, but these
drives have 1s (512bytes) stripes.
Then, I dig into kernel and found there are no actual stripe limitation
seems. So, all the limits are in mdadm code. I patched soure and all
works ok.
mdadm --build /dev/md0 --level=0 --chunk=1s --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdd
/dev/sdc
First: there are UNDOCUCMENTED option in --chunk, size could be given
in sectors (s).
Second: 1s used as INVALID_SECTORS constant. I changed it to 0xffff
Third: The sector number is stored in K. I removes this division, maybe
it is only for output.
Where to connect with mdadm team to ask for changes? What I skipped to
patch?
[mdadm.h]
1737c1737
< * a value for 'invalid'. Use '1'.
---
> * a value for 'invalid'. Use '-1'.
1739c1739
< #define INVALID_SECTORS 1
---
> #define INVALID_SECTORS 0xffff
[mdadm.c]
381,384c381,382
< if (s.chunk == INVALID_SECTORS ||
< s.chunk < 8 || (s.chunk&1)) {
< pr_err("invalid chunk/rounding value: %s\n",
< optarg);
---
> if (s.chunk == INVALID_SECTORS) {
> pr_err("invalid chunk/rounding value: %s\n",optarg);
[Build.c]
387,388d384
< /* Convert sectors to K */
< s.chunk /= 2;
145c145
< array.chunk_size = s->chunk*1024;
---
> array.chunk_size = s->chunk*512;
[Create.c]
696c696
< info.array.chunk_size = s->chunk*1024;
---
> info.array.chunk_size = s->chunk*512;
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