On Monday August 19, ARechenberg@shermanfinancialgroup.com wrote: > 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? Yes, some old limit. I don't remember the exact details, they were never important to me, but I think it involved some miscalculation about how many entries would actually fit in the 4096 byte superblock. Hopefully 2.6 will have a much higher limit (using an optional different superblock format). 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
