Re: Possible to change chunk size on RAID-1 without re-init or destructive result?
From: Stan Hoeppner <hidden>
Date: 2013-03-27 19:11:12
On 3/27/2013 11:01 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
From the manual
-c, --chunk=
Specify chunk size of kibibytes. The default when creating an array is 512KB. To ensure compatibility with ear‐
lier versions, the default when Building and array with no persistent metadata is 64KB. This is only meaningful
for RAID0, RAID4, RAID5, RAID6, and RAID10.
meaning - chunk size isn't relevant to a mirrorThe man page should be changed to explicitly state that --chunk does not apply to RAID1 or --linear arrays. Far too many people are having trouble with this. For those people the current docs are apparently too subtle. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html