Problem is that is only happens when you actually write data to the raid. You need the actual space to reproduce the problem. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Jan Engelhardt [mailto:jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 6:17 a.m. To: david@xxxxxxx Cc: Andreas Dilger; Jeff Zheng; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB On May 16 2007 11:04, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > > I'm getting ready to setup a similar machine that will have 3x10TB (3 > 15 disk arrays with 750G drives), but won't be ready to try this for a few more days. You could emulate it with VMware. Big disks are quite "cheap" when they are not allocated. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html