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RaidFrame Problem
- To: tech_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
- Subject: RaidFrame Problem
- From: Travis Gillitzer <tgillitzer_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:31:17 -0600
- Reply-to: Travis Gillitzer <tgillitzer_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>
I am trying to create a RAID 5 array for some testing (before using it
for production storage). I am using 3 120GB IDE drives. They are all
on their own IDE channel.
When I created it using the entire drive size, everything worked fine.
However, it took 12+ hours to initialize it. I don't want to wait
that long to tweak settings during testing.
So, I unconfigured it, deleted the partitions and started over. This
time I created 6GB partitions on each of the disks and tried to
recreate the same array as before. When I do this, following the same
steps:
disklabel -E wd1
Created a partition on 'd' of 6GB with a type of RAID
Create the following in raid1_5.conf
START array
# numRow numCol numSpare
1 3 0
START disks
/dev/wd1d
/dev/wd2d
/dev/wd3d
START layout
# sectPerSU SUsPerParityUnit SUsPerReconUnit RAID_Level
64 1 1 5
START queue
fifo 100
raidctl -C /etc/raid1_5.conf raid0
This step works fine, show no errors in /var/log/messages
raidctl -I 111222 raid0
This step doesn't work fine. Shows errors:
sun /bsd: WARNING: raid0: end of partition `c' exceeds the
size of raid (25165440)
sun /bsd: WARNING: raid0: end of partition `d' exceeds the
size of raid (25165440)
raidctl -vi raid0
seems to work fine
disklabel -E raid0
create a single partition on 'a', using the entire drive
size, seems to work fine
newfs /dev/raid0a
errors with the following
newfs: /dev/raid0a: not a character-special device
newfs: wtfs: write error on block 468744191: No space
left on device
It seems to be a problem caused by using a partial drive partition.
Another person seems to be having similar problems.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/6c40f663bc585e5f/42827a8d5761b898?q=WARNING:+raid0:+end+of+partition+%60c%27+exceeds+the+size+of+raid#42827a8d5761b898
Any ideas?
Thanks
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