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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: imsm: 32 bit sector counts and > 2TB disks
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:08:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50CA0B87.5080200@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50CA062D.2000002@ubuntu.com>

On 13/12/2012 16:45, Phillip Susi wrote:
> It appears that the imsm format only uses 32 bits to represent the
> sector counts used from each disk.  It appears that at least on
> Windows, a disk > 2 TB works

It certainly does. I built a Supermicro server with 3TB drives and IMSM 
RAID a couple of weeks ago.

> so could someone from intel explain how
> this is supposed to work?

I'd be interested too. If I need to expand the array on the above, I was 
expecting to use a Linux live CD and mdadm to do the reshape.

Cheers,

John.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-13 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-13 16:45 imsm: 32 bit sector counts and > 2TB disks Phillip Susi
2012-12-13 17:08 ` John Robinson [this message]
     [not found] <679865E03F4C71419D9847EA3AACB1631620DDC8@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com>
2012-12-17 13:03 ` Dorau, Lukasz

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