From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: AndyLiebman@aol.com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.8.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 20:27:40 EST
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>neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au writes:
>Release 1.8.0 adds:
>   -   --pid-file option to declare a file to record the pid in for 
>   --monitor --daemonise
>    -   Support for new "faulty" personalitiy (see md.4) - not submited to
>        kernel.org yet.
>    -   support for raid0 and linear over devices larger than 2 Terabytes.
>    -   assorted bug fixes.

Hello Neil, 

Is this to say that earlier versions of mdadm did NOT support RAID-0 on 
devices larger than 2 TB? 

I have been using mdadm 1.6 to create a 4.8 TB RAID-0 array (md0) on top of 
two 3ware 2.4 TB Hardware RAID-5 arrays (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) -- and so far I 
don't see any problems. The RAID-0 is created without trouble. The resulting 
size is reported as 4.8 TB. The performance is awesome. And, presumably, the 
data protection is sound.

Am I missing something? 

Andy Liebman