Re: mkfs on large h/w RAID fails

["Dave Sill" <ds-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 12:00, Dave Sill wrote:
> > Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > can you try 2.4.14 or 2.4.17 and also upgrade to the new tools?
> > 
> > Do I need the XFS kernel to run mkfs.xfs or can I just install the new
> > tools?
> 
> Any old kernel should do.

Thought so. Unfortunately, I'm still seeing the same problem after
installing xfsprogs-1.3.17:

[root@malachite rpm]# mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sdb1
meta-data=/dev/sdb1              isize=256    agcount=224, agsize=1048576 blks
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=234870292, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=0
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096  
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=28670
realtime =none                   extsz=65536  blocks=0, rtextents=0
mkfs.xfs: read failed: Input/output error
mkfs.xfs: data size check failed
mkfs.xfs: mount initialization failed
[root@malachite rpm]# 

-Dave