From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with 15TB logical volume
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:59:09 -0400
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Eric Sandeen wrote:

...

> Without the comma, mkfs thinks you are trying to mkfs a device called
> "stripe-width=384" with a block count of "<devicename>"
> 
> Odd eh ;)
> 
> Perhaps echoing back the blocks count which it found to be invalid
> (in this case the devicename string) would make the failure more
> obvious...
> 

Oh, actually, that is just what it's doing, but it's not obvious,
since it was the device name, and it looked like it was simply reporting
which device had the error...

-Eric