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

Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-17T15:34:37Z

On May 17 2007 21:11, Neil Brown wrote:
>On Thursday May 17, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de wrote:
>> XOR it (0^0=1), and hence fills up the host disk.
>
>Uhmm... you need to check your maths.
>
>$ perl -e 'printf "%d\n", 0^0;'
>0
>
>:-)

(ouch)
You know just as I that ^ is the power operator!
I just... wrongly named it XOR :p

$ echo '0^0' | bc -l
1

Well, right, setting up a blank raid5 array inside vmware will not make
the host file significantly larger, making it easy to build megatera
arrays with gigabyte range host disks.

Jan
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