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From: Roman Mamedov <roman@rm.pp.ru>
Subject: Re: Why is sb->size set to 0 with raid0?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:50:54 +0600
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On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:34:56 +1000
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:

> For RAID0 (and linear), there is no such number.  The devices can be of
> different sizes and in each case "all" of the available space is used.

That sounds a bit surprising, excuse my ignorance, but how a RAID0 of
differently-sized devices is laid out? Is the "tail" of the larger device
simply used in linear mode, adding space to the striped "heads"?

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With respect,
Roman

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