Re: [RE]Incorrect length on via raid

No, I an running Ubuntu Edgy which runs dmraid to detect raid sets at 
each boot from the initramfs.

James Olson wrote:
> Hi Phillip,
> Are you running and booting Fedora Core 5 from the raid0 array? From my 
> experience newer versions of dmraid set the correct stripe size, but the problem 
> is in getting the old stripe size updated. The old stripe size is located inside 
> the init file in the initrd ramdisk image on FC5.
> -James
> 
> ---------[ Received Mail Content ]----------
>  >Subject : Incorrect length on via raid
>  >Date : Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:59:48 -0400
>  >From : Phillip Susi
>  >To : "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions"
>  >
>  >I have a via raid0 and with newer kernels dmraid fails to set up the
>  >table because the device mapper refuses to accept stripe tables that
>  >have a length that is not an even multiple of the stripe width. I
>  >believe that all versions of dmraid up to and including rc12-pre1
>  >incorrectly set the length on my system, but the on disk metadata
>  >appears to contain the proper length.
>  >
>  >dmraid -n output shows:
>  >
>  >0x006 array.capacity_low: 72303744
>  >
>  >But dmsetup table shows:
>  >
>  >via_hfciifae: 0 144607678 striped 2 128 8:0 0 8:16 0
>  >
>  >The total length should be 144607488 sectors, not 144607678.
>  >
>  >
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