[Centos] Re: What's the biggest software raid partition?

[chrism at imntv.com (Chris Mauritz)]

Imran wrote:

>Is it correct that the maximum number of drives you can put on a single
>RAID5 array is 8 drives?
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No, that is not the case, though it may be a hardware/firmware 
limitation of your particular RAID card.

>If this is the case then you will need to make two separate RAID5 arrays,
>since you have 10 drives. 
>I recently setup a 16x300GB RAID, but had to setup two separate arrays.
>The card I used was an Adaptec 16channel card.
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That's certainly not a Linux-imposed limitation.  Adaptec driver support 
for Linux has never been stellar (and actually was horrible in the early 
days).

Cheers,

C