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From: "matt s." <cache22@webkorner.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LINEAR RAID, little help
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:19:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461E15C9.7010306@webkorner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17949.59661.6968.6058@notabene.brown>

Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> md/raid0 makes use of all available space (modulo chunk size).
> To quote from "man md"
> 
> 
>        If devices in the array are not all the same size, then once the small‐
>        est device has been  exhausted,  the  RAID0  driver  starts  collecting
>        chunks  into smaller stripes that only span the drives which still have
>        remaining space.
> 

And at the point where the space is exhausted on all drives but one, I 
assume it will keep writing to that last one, non-striped?

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-12 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-07 11:17 LINEAR RAID, little help Rich
2007-04-07 17:33 ` Gavin McCullagh
2007-04-07 18:41   ` Rich
2007-04-07 20:34     ` Gavin McCullagh
2007-04-10 21:49       ` Henrik Holst
2007-04-10 23:12     ` Neil Brown
     [not found]       ` <461DE4CA.9020406@pcfusion.co.uk>
2007-04-12  7:58         ` Rich
2007-04-12  8:08           ` Neil Brown
2007-04-12 11:19             ` matt s. [this message]
2007-04-12 14:55             ` Bill Davidsen

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