On 10/24/2014 01:36 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > On my first big RAID -- 160 GB disks off a 3Ware RAID controller -- > one of them died. I RMA'd it with the vendor (Seagate?), and got > back *THE SAME MODEL*. And it was one cylinder smaller than all the > others.
Ouch. I messed up the link on this topic. Here is the fix: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Partition_Types Quoting: > Your editor prefers to use partitions that are slightly smaller than > a device. This allows: > > the device has a partition table - no 'partition table not found' > replacement disks even of the same model are often slightly smaller > and making the partition 100Mb smaller than the device allows some > tolerance. no performance impact > > Neil, the md/mdadm author, uses whole disks. So I wonder how "Neil" deals with this issue? -- Anthony Carrico
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