From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Stark Subject: md has hard coded maximum number of drives? Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:21:25 +0000 Message-ID: <87wsfj5gru.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Ah, nevermind. I just discovered that mdadm defaults to the old 0.90 format superblock. I suppose that's still a WTF but at least it makes sense. Perhaps the error message should explain exactly *why* 28+ is invalid and suggest using -e to work around the problem. -- greg