Re: Attempt to access beyond end of device/Raid linear and 1
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote:
> I recently set up two 9 gig scsi drives on my machine. Discovered
> that an attempt to copy data from one array to another results in
> "I/O error. Attempt to access beyond end of device". Data copies
> to/from either raid array to/from a non-raid partition work properly.
the problem is you have a misconfigured raid system
you can either have a raid system with
diskA + diskB (raid-level == linear )
or
diskA mirrored to diskB ( raid-level == 1 )
> Googling found references to a similar problem in the 2.2 kernels
> but not the 2.4 series.
>
> Running Debian Woody and the mdadm daemon.
>
> ------------------/etc/raidtab---------------------------------
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level linear
... okay .. but .. this just combines sda2 + sdb2 as "one disk"
> nr-raid-disks 2
> chunk-size 32
> persistent-superblock 1
> device /dev/sda2
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/sdb2
> raid-disk 1
>
> raiddev /dev/md1
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 1
> chunk-size 32
> persistent-superblock 1
> device /dev/sda1
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/sdb1
> raid-disk 1
> device /dev/hda11
> spare-disk 0
the above says you have the same data on sda1 and sdb1 and hda11
if any of the partitions are not exactly the same sizes ( same number of
cylinders ) ... you're dead ..
- dont forget that some disk bios mapps 16 heads into 255 heads
and that makes things nice and messy
c ya
alvin
-- too much data for your "logs" ... nice to see but ...
it'd be better if you highlighted what you thought was bad
like you did in fstab
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