Re: Help Raid for sparc

1999-11-27 Thread John Finlay
Ingo Molnar wrote: > chunksize does have an important meaning in the linear case: it's > 'rounding'. We cannot change this unilaterally (it breaks backwards What is "rounding" mean in the linear case? Is this the rounding of each partition that is part of the MD drive? > > compatibility), and i

Re: Help Raid for sparc

1999-11-26 Thread Robert Dahlem
James, On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:26:19 -0800 (PST), Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > I vote for maintaining the Doc's , [...] And do you volunteer to? :-) Regards, Robert

Re: Help Raid for sparc

1999-11-26 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Ingo, On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote: > chunksize does have an important meaning in the linear case: it's > 'rounding'. We cannot change this unilaterally (it breaks backwards > compatibility), and it does make sense i believe. [certain disks serve > requests faster which h

Re: Help Raid for sparc

1999-11-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
chunksize does have an important meaning in the linear case: it's 'rounding'. We cannot change this unilaterally (it breaks backwards compatibility), and it does make sense i believe. [certain disks serve requests faster which have proper alignment and size. I do not think we should assume that a

Re: Help Raid for sparc

1999-11-26 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 09:43:06AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo, > > I have a Sparc 10 with Linux6.1 running I have two disks of 1Gb and > 1.7Gb. > I would like to do a linear raid but when I do "raidstart -a /dev/md0 > into shell I receive -> /dev/md0: Invalid argument <- > and in

Help Raid for sparc

1999-11-26 Thread giancarlo . bartoli
Hallo, I have a Sparc 10 with Linux6.1 running  I have two disks of 1Gb and   1.7Gb. I would like to do a linear raid but  when I do "raidstart -a /dev/md0  into shell I receive -> /dev/md0: Invalid argument <- and  into consolle (read) sdb1's sb offset:1026048 [events: 20202020]    md: invalid r