Can I just download the SRC RPM from 7.3 and build and install the binary RPM with the libs, etc. in Red Hat 7.1 and get the intended functionality or do most people recommend mdadm in place of raidtools? We currently have to run Red Hat 7.1 because of the database requirements for an application we are running on the box and cannot upgrade to 7.3 as of now. Thanks again to everyone for their help. Regards, Andy. -----Original Message----- From: Maurice Hilarius [mailto:maurice@harddata.com] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 8:53 PM To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rechenberg, Andrew Subject: RE: Single md physical device limit With regards to your message at 03:01 PM 8/19/02, Neil Brown. Where you stated: >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. As shipped in Red Hat 7.2 and earlier that limit existed. It was fixed in 7.3 If you need a copy of the srpm or rpm with the patches applied let me know. If you are using Disk Druid from 7.2 or earlier, you will need to update that as well, as it does not recognize the fix. With our best regards, Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue mailto:maurice@harddata.com Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/ T5X 1Y3 2.3TB RAID5 NAS server - dual AthlonMP CPU, Linux, $10,995 CAD / $6850 USD - 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
