On May 17 2007 21:11, Neil Brown wrote: >On Thursday May 17, jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 -- - 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