Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 May 2002 20:25:58 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: >12 drives in a RAID? |
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Hello Roy & All , Mr. Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Has come up with a (somewhat) complete tool for software raid maintenance . Also might try raising these questions & concerns on the linux-raid list . Please see below . Hth , JimL
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:16:56PM +0200, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:11:00PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > > hi > > > How can I use more than 12 drives in a RAID config? I need it!!! > > > Please cc: to me as I'm not on the list(s) > > Yes. > > > > Back in the "old days" with the old superblocks you couldn't. > Hm, the last time I looked a header used by kernels had space > for someting like 27 or 29 drives (I do not remember the exact > number) but its variant in 'raidtools' sources allowed indeed > only 12. Synchronizing those headers to kernel values raised > a maximum number of disks in an array quite considerably. > Michal
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