From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: freshly grown array shrinks after first reboot - major data loss Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:48:34 +0100 Message-ID: <4E5FB762.4050003@yuiop.co.uk> References: <4E5FA4B5.6010407@macroscoop.nl> <4E5FAEF3.60501@macroscoop.nl> <4E5FAFE9.3040604@macroscoop.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E5FAFE9.3040604@macroscoop.nl> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Pim Zandbergen Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 01/09/2011 17:16, Pim Zandbergen wrote: > # gdisk -l /dev/sdk [...] > Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name > 1 2048 5860533134 2.7 TiB FD00 Linux RAID Partition type FD is only for metadata 0.90 arrays to be auto-assembled by the kernel. This is now deprecated; you should be using partition type DA (Non-FS data) and an initrd to assemble your arrays. > # mdadm --examine /dev/sdk1 > /dev/sdk1: > Magic : a92b4efc > Version : 0.90.03 Metadata version 0.90 does not support devices over 2TiB. I think it's a bug that you weren't warned at some point. Cheers, John. -- John Robinson, yuiop IT services 0131 557 9577 / 07771 784 058 46/12 Broughton Road, Edinburgh EH7 4EE