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Re: mkfs on large h/w RAID fails

Subject: Re: mkfs on large h/w RAID fails
From: Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:00:48 +0100
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Dave Sill schrieb:

> [Please reply only to the mailing list.]
>
> 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]#

The message says 'data size check failed', can to try to specify data size by
hand and maybe other parameters too. I guess the size detection algorythm ran
into a problem with your tera size partition.

-Simon

>
>
> -Dave


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