From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: md has hard coded maximum number of drives?
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:26:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6zz5jc4.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> (raw)
# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 0 --raid-devices 60 `cat drives`
mdadm: invalid number of raid devices: 60
# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 0 --raid-devices 32 `cat drives`
mdadm: invalid number of raid devices: 32
# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level 0 --raid-devices 33 `cat drives`
mdadm: invalid number of raid devices: 33
Firstly, "invalid number" is a terrible error message. 60 is a perfectly good
number. The error message gives no indication of why it doesn't find 60 to be
a "valid" number.
Secondly there's no mention in any documentation for mdadm or anywhere else
that I can find of any arbitrary maximum number of drives.
Thirdly, WTF?!
--
greg
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