From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Minvielle Subject: Re: mdadm question Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 21:05:53 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <1002081872.2738.1267585553566.JavaMail.root@mail1> References: <2127483366.2736.1267585385014.JavaMail.root@mail1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2127483366.2736.1267585385014.JavaMail.root@mail1> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids ----- "Neil Brown" wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:15:04 -0600 (CST) > Using old software on new hardware.... > When using Debian, I would recommend the -testing version for new > hardware.... > (not that I am prepared to back-up that recommendation with support). > > However I suspect Debian5 should be able to be made to work with your > setup. Hrmm, will look into that. > > The default metadata layout has a maximum of 28 devices. If you want > more, > add > --metadata=1.0 > > You won't be able to use in-kernel autodetect, but you shouldn't need > to with > Debian, even at that vintage. > Argh, I see the note now in the man page. I missed it. Funny that google did not return that/man page/etc when I searched for things like "maximum number of drives in mdadm array" etc. > I'm surprised it didn't work with '2', or did you mean "42" ? > Yes, sorry for the confusion. Thanks.