From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
To: Tyler <pml@dtbb.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Any way to Increase MD_SB_DISKS=27 ? I need 31 devices
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 10:58:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42764014.5060909@steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <427583FA.7030704@dtbb.net>
Tyler wrote:
> PS - I've tryed the latest 2.6.12-rc3-mm2 kernel, with mdadm v2.0-devel,
> using the --metadata 1.0 option on the create line, and still get:
> # mdadm -C -e 1.0 -l 6 -n 31 /dev/md0 /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd
> /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh
> /dev/sdi /dev/sdj /dev/sdk /dev/sdl /dev/sdm /dev/sdn /dev/sdo /dev/sdp
> /dev/sdq /dev/sdr /dev/sds /dev/sdt /dev/sdu /dev/sdv /dev/sdw /dev/sdx
> /dev/sdy /dev/sdz /dev/sdaa /dev/sdab
> mdadm: invalid number of raid devices: 31
As far as I can tell, mdadm just shouldn't give this error when you're
using a version 1 superblock. If you disable that check in mdadm.c, I
think everything will work. Version 1 superblocks allow something like
2000 disks in an array.
--
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-02 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-02 1:35 Any way to Increase MD_SB_DISKS=27 ? I need 31 devices Tyler
2005-05-02 7:09 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-05-02 8:40 ` Tyler
2005-05-02 8:56 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-05-02 9:36 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-05-03 11:44 ` Tyler
2005-05-03 13:45 ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-05-02 14:58 ` Paul Clements [this message]
2005-05-03 11:22 ` Tyler
2005-05-03 14:03 ` Paul Clements
2005-05-03 22:28 ` Tyler
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