Using Linux 2.2.1 and the raidtools .90 patch there appears to be an
overflow bug in dealing with >2 gb disk partitions on the i386
architecture.
I have 4 drives laid out more or less as follows:
/dev/sda1 * 1 5 21824 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 6 1016 4419081 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 6 99 410843 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 100 127 122357 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda7 128 409 1232591 83 Linux native
/dev/sda8 410 1016 2653166 fd Unknown
When I raid5 together /dev/sd*8 I get a total raid array size of:
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/md0 1498416 52 1421020 0% /mnt/raid
which is, um, quite a bit smaller than I expected. Gee, there
must be quite a bit of ecc code in there or something... :)
If I'm doing something else stupid (old e2fs tools, mount,
etc - this is a plain redhat 5.2 system with the new modutils and
2.2.1 kernel only) please let me know.
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mike
