Once upon a time, hw <hw at gc-24.de> said: > xfs is supposed to detect the layout of a md-RAID devices when creating the > file system, but it doesn´t seem to do that: > > > # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md10 : active raid1 sde[1] sdd[0] > 499976512 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] > bitmap: 0/4 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk RAID 1 has no "layout" (for RAID, that usually refers to striping in RAID levels 0/5/6), so there's nothing for a filesystem to detect or optimize for. The chunk size above is for the md-RAID write-intent bitmap; that's not exposed information (for any RAID system that I'm aware of, software or hardware) or something that filesystems can optimize for. -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>