From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maurice Hilarius Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:12:24 -0700 Message-ID: <442C65D8.6010008@harddata.com> References: <17451.24526.329349.962585@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17451.24526.329349.962585@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. -- With our best regards, Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue email:maurice@harddata.com Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/ T5X 1Y3