From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 30 12:39:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 153E116A407 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:39:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30303.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30303.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBE9B13C45E for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:39:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 61873 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Dec 2006 12:39:40 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=FSCfDv2tAat63OkV2zyhsUtdeu9MTg+58U0Bql0eff0QTBjRRjPq+Fmkl7CX8sG2D9yPM3Rb2zlkyHfin4Qt8KSLA6LmOszYh1vyPTaJ2xb7wk+3uYFsZ8c1bh6FIcuUKuhJNrHMul9EbiwlBEqG/CL6uNLTowjBWkOckXV6xCw=; X-YMail-OSG: t598suIVM1nzZ219UuJVypXkkIZQem1GYOcyeCtmf2TqPGxBueZQmpcTZ1wkLaTDLZKmaSvbOK4ri7wx8nJoofETQWm4GqqKhVsMALrDXD.vO0YZ2gZeSQVoj.SHFgVWLb_jKnO.smckTaauh7lT0noDDolk2uerLQ-- Received: from [85.212.9.158] by web30303.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:39:39 PST Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:39:39 -0800 (PST) From: "R. B. Riddick" To: Ivan Voras , freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <45965441.6010002@fer.hr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <36644.58831.qm@web30303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: graid3 device gives "Invalid argument" when requested to read>=128kb X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:39:41 -0000 --- Ivan Voras wrote: > No, probably not. The whole thing was my very first attempt at doing > anything with GEOM (ggcomp - it still exists somewhere), which wasn't > very usable :) "Normal" file system operations worked, though I think > there were problems even here with 16 KB sectors. > Sector size seems to be not the reason (at least with gnop and dd on R6.1): neo# gnop create -S 16384 md0 neo# dd if=/dev/md0.nop of=/dev/null dd: /dev/md0.nop: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000155 secs (0 bytes/sec) neo# dd if=/dev/md0.nop of=/dev/null bs=16k 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 16777216 bytes transferred in 0.398660 secs (42084027 bytes/sec) Just UFS seems to have a problem: neo# newfs /dev/md0.nop /dev/md0.nop: 16.0MB (32768 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 16384 using 4 cylinder groups of 4.02MB, 257 blks, 128 inodes. newfs: can't read old UFS1 superblock: read error from block device: Invalid argument -Arne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com