Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:53:24 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Florian Huber <florian.huber@mnet-online.de>,
       JFS Discussion <jfs-discussion@www-124.ibm.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] md raid + jfs + jfs_fsck
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:43:05PM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> My guess is that software raid is stealing a few blocks from the end of
> the partition,

Yes, it does.  But JFS should get the right size from the gendisk anyway.
Or did you create the raid with the filesystem already existant?  While that
appears to work for a non-full ext2/ext3 filesystem it's not something you
should do because it makes the filesystem internal bookkeeping wrong and
you'll run into trouble with any filesystem sooner or later.

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