On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:51:31AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:

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> On 12/19/10 11:15, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > I could swear we had the sizes right but I'll have another look at this.
> > 
> > What raid type did you test this with?
> > 
> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 02:17:46PM +0100, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I've noticed that the size of softraid(4) disks is one sector too large.
> >> 
> >> In the following description, the native disk is sd4c (which is of type 
> >> RAID),
> 
> partition 'c' as a RAID partition?  That's not good, is it?
> Or am I missing something?
> 
> Nick.

It is not agood idea, but since newfs write the last sector of a
partition (as a general consistency check in mkfs.c:203) it is a good
test to see if that last sector is indeed writable. 

	-Otto