Bug 60632

Summary:	mdadm-1.2.0 is broken on large devices
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	delta407 <delta407>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Installer <gli-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	mki-gentoo, mschulkind
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description delta407 2004-08-16 21:31:51 UTC

Attempting to use mdadm-1.2.0 on a 1.5 TB device yields:

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# fdisk /dev/sda

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 1498.9 GB, 1498918420480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182233 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         125     1004031   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2             126      182233  1462782510   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Command (m for help): q

# mdadm --create /dev/md1 -c 64 -l multipath -n 2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdc2
mdadm: /dev/sda2 is too small: -684701138K
mdadm: /dev/sdc2 is too small: -684701138K
mdadm: create aborted
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This appears to be the result of mdadm's use of signed 32-bit integers relating to capacity variables. mdadm-1.6.0 does not suffer from this issue. What is keeping it out of KEYWORDS="x86"?

Comment 1 Matthew Schulkind 2004-08-20 23:13:46 UTC

Is this really a bug then?

If it is resolved in a newer version that's already in portage, feel free to use it.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-08-20 23:19:57 UTC

1.6.0 moved to stable

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-08-21 23:44:16 UTC

*** Bug 61205 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-03-24 13:46:24 UTC

Moving to Release Media/Installer.