From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Roman Mamedov <roman@rm.pp.ru>
Cc: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is sb->size set to 0 with raid0?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:02:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100722230254.4d0a7d80@notabene> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100722185054.51930d15@natsu>
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:50:54 +0600
Roman Mamedov <roman@rm.pp.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:34:56 +1000
> Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > For RAID0 (and linear), there is no such number. The devices can be of
> > different sizes and in each case "all" of the available space is used.
>
> That sounds a bit surprising, excuse my ignorance, but how a RAID0 of
> differently-sized devices is laid out? Is the "tail" of the larger device
> simply used in linear mode, adding space to the striped "heads"?
>
% man md
search for "RAID0"
read and enjoy.
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-22 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-21 16:16 Why is sb->size set to 0 with raid0? Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-07-22 5:34 ` Neil Brown
2010-07-22 11:36 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-07-22 12:50 ` Roman Mamedov
2010-07-22 13:02 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2010-07-22 13:04 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
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