2013/4/22 NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>: > I'll try to make sure that works correctly for the next release. > Thanks for the report. Sorry, Neil. for bumping up old thread. I'm again have problems with data-offset param for mdadm. I'm using version from git master (guthub). If i try to create raid1 like /sbin/mdadm --create --data-offset=2048 --metadata=1.2 --verbose --force --run --bitmap=internal --assume-clean --name=md21_901 md21_901 --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/mapper/sas00-21_901 /dev/mapper/sas01-21_901 I have Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 64e0028e:301aa3ce:cdf1a54f:a9e28f27 Name : xen25:md21_901 (local to host xen25) Creation Time : Fri Dec 27 10:43:06 2013 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 10489856 (5.00 GiB 5.37 GB) Array Size : 5244928 (5.00 GiB 5.37 GB) Data Offset : 4096 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=4008 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 38771de6:cb5f0dbc:9f32f85f:164e1e89 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Fri Dec 27 10:43:22 2013 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 7f07eb77 - correct Events : 2 But when i try to create raid1 like /sbin/mdadm --create --data-offset=1024 --metadata=1.2 --verbose --force --run --bitmap=internal --assume-clean --name=md21_901 md21_901 --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/mapper/sas00-21_901 /dev/mapper/sas01-21_901 I getting Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : ef22dca1:1424ea9e:1b4dce89:27c61a91 Name : xen25:md21_901 (local to host xen25) Creation Time : Fri Dec 27 10:44:21 2013 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 10491904 (5.00 GiB 5.37 GB) Array Size : 5245952 (5.00 GiB 5.37 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1960 sectors, after=0 sectors State : clean Device UUID : afae5e27:6c706246:4c3e3cb0:e5c726ac Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Fri Dec 27 10:44:26 2013 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : 45be4cd1 - correct Events : 2 Why data offset specified in command line grows twice in resulting md array component? -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx jabber: vase@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html