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

Michal Piotrowski
2007-05-15T23:30:21Z

[Ingo, Neil, linux-raid added to CC]

On 16/05/07, Jeff Zheng <Jeff.Zheng@endace.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> We are experiencing problems with software raid0, with very
> large disk arrays.
> We are using two 3ware disk array controllers, each of them is connected
> 8 750GB harddrives. And we build a software raid0 on top of that. The
> total capacity is 5.5TB+5.5TB=11TB
>
> We use jfs as the file-system, we have a test application that write
> data continuously to the disks. After writing 52 10GB files, jfs
> crashed. And we are not able to recover it, fsck doesn't recognise it
> anymore.
> We then tried xfs, same application, lasted a little longer, but gives
> kernel crash later.
>
> We then reconfigured the hardware array, this time we configured two
> disk array from each controller, than we have 4 disk arrays, each of
> them have 4 750GB harddrives. Than build a new software raid0 on top of
> that. Total capacity is still the same, but 2.75T+2.75T+2.75T+2.75T=11T.
>
> This time we managed to fill the whole 11T data without problem, we are
> still doing validation on all 11TB of data written to the disks.
>
> It happened on 2.6.20 and 2.6.13.
>
> So I think the problem is in the way on software raid handling very
> large disk, maybe a integer overflow or something. I've searched on the
> web, only find another guy complaining the same thing on the xfs mailing
> list.
>
> Anybody have a clue?
>
>
> Jeff
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Regards,
Michal

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