Re: Raid5 Reshape Status + xfs_growfs = Success! (2.6.17.3)

From: Neil Brown
Date: Mon Jul 17 2006 - 20:47:50 EST


On Tuesday July 11, jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Neil,
>
> It worked, echo'ing the 600 > to the stripe width in /sys, however, how
> come /dev/md3 says it is 0 MB when I type fdisk -l?
>
> Is this normal?

Yes. The 'cylinders' number is limited to 16bits. For you 2.2TB
array, the number of 'cylinders' (given 2 heads and 4 sectors) would
be about 500,000 which doesn't fit into 16 bits.
>
> Furthermore, the xfs_growfs worked beautifully!
>

Excellent!

NeilBrown
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