Interesting, when I initially built my array (with RedHat raidtools-0.90 not mdctl/mdadm, on kernel 2.4.17) it stated that I could only stripe across 12 devices. Do you have any idea from which this number comes? Is it an old limit? Thanks again for your help. Regards, Andy. -----Original Message----- From: Neil Brown [mailto:neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:14 PM To: Rechenberg, Andrew Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Single md physical device limit On Monday August 19, ARechenberg@shermanfinancialgroup.com wrote: > > Without drastically modifying the kernel code, is there any way to > increase the physical device limit when building a single md device? I > believe that the currently limit is 12 physical disks (?) No, but the current limit is 27 ..... > > For reference, I would like to stripe across an entire Dell PowerVault > 220S, which has 14 drives in it. so this should work fine. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
