From: Maurice Hilarius <maurice@harddata.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:12:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <442C65D8.6010008@harddata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17451.24526.329349.962585@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Neil Brown wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the availability of
> mdadm version 2.4
> ..
>
> Release 2.4 primarily adds support for increasing the number of
> devices in a RAID5 array, which requires 2.6.17 (or some -rc or -mm
> prerelease).
> ..
Is there a corresponding means to increase the size of a file system to
use this?
> - Allow --monitor to work with arrays with >28 devices
>
So, how DO we get past the old 26 device "alphabet limit" ?
Thanks, as always, for the great work, Neil.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-30 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-30 4:34 ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Neil Brown
2006-03-30 9:36 ` Farkas Levente
2006-03-30 15:27 ` Re[2]: " Jim Klimov
2006-03-30 23:12 ` Maurice Hilarius [this message]
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