On Tuesday September 14, thunder7@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:08:53AM +1000 > > A new format is being supported because the old format has problems. > > One is that it cannot work with devices larger than 2 Gigabytes (and I > > have had a request from someone who wanted to include such a device in > > an MD array). > > I presume you mean terabyte, but I'm not sure you don't mean petabyte or > something else very large? Yes. terabyte (2^(32+9) bytes is the max size) > > > The raid10 module is in 2.4.9-rc2 and will be in 2.4.9 when it gets > > released. > > 2.6.9 I presume? You presume correctly. I type poorly :-) > > * near_copies and far_copies must be at least one, and there product is at most > > ----------------------------------------------------------their > Would you believe that I deliberately put in those errors just to see if anyone actually reads these comments..... no, I wouldn't either. Thanks, NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
