From: Robert Minvielle <robert@lite3d.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mdadm question
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 21:05:53 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1002081872.2738.1267585553566.JavaMail.root@mail1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2127483366.2736.1267585385014.JavaMail.root@mail1>
----- "Neil Brown" <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:15:04 -0600 (CST)
> Using old software on new hardware....
> When using Debian, I would recommend the -testing version for new
> hardware....
> (not that I am prepared to back-up that recommendation with support).
>
> However I suspect Debian5 should be able to be made to work with your
> setup.
Hrmm, will look into that.
>
> The default metadata layout has a maximum of 28 devices. If you want
> more,
> add
> --metadata=1.0
>
> You won't be able to use in-kernel autodetect, but you shouldn't need
> to with
> Debian, even at that vintage.
>
Argh, I see the note now in the man page. I missed it. Funny that google
did not return that/man page/etc when I searched for things like "maximum number of
drives in mdadm array" etc.
> I'm surprised it didn't work with '2', or did you mean "42" ?
>
Yes, sorry for the confusion.
Thanks.
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2010-03-03 3:05 ` Robert Minvielle [this message]
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2010-03-03 1:15 ` mdadm question Robert Minvielle
2010-03-03 1:42 ` Neil Brown
2010-03-03 1:45 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-03-03 16:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-20 16:18 Andreas John
2004-08-20 22:11 ` Neil Brown
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