RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

Neil Brown
2007-05-17T02:46:07Z

On Thursday May 17, Jeff.Zheng@endace.com wrote:
>
> > The only difference of any significance between the working
> > and non-working configurations is that in the non-working,
> > the component devices are larger than 2Gig, and hence have
> > sector offsets greater than 32 bits.
>
> Do u mean 2T here?, but in both configuartion, the component devices are
> larger than 2T (2.25T&5.5T).

Yes, I meant 2T, and yes, the components are always over 2T. So I'm
at a complete loss. The raid0 code follows the same paths and does
the same things and uses 64bit arithmetic where needed.

So I have no idea how there could be a difference between these two
cases.

I'm at a loss...

NeilBrown