On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:51:31AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 12/19/10 11:15, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > I could swear we had the sizes right but I'll have another look at this.
> >
> > What raid type did you test this with?
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 02:17:46PM +0100, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I've noticed that the size of softraid(4) disks is one sector too large.
> >>
> >> In the following description, the native disk is sd4c (which is of type
> >> RAID),
>
> partition 'c' as a RAID partition? That's not good, is it?
> Or am I missing something?
>
> Nick.
It is not agood idea, but since newfs write the last sector of a
partition (as a general consistency check in mkfs.c:203) it is a good
test to see if that last sector is indeed writable.
-Otto
