On Tuesday September 27, lfarkas@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > hi, > i'd been already asked, but don't get any answer. what is the maximum > size of a raid5 and raid5 partition in kerenel 2.6? i try to find the > answer but found only kernel 2.4 info. > thanks in advance. > Providing you are using either 64bit hardware, or the 'LBD' (large block device) config, then raid5 arrays can be up to 2^64 - i.e. enormous - no practical limit. I don't know what you mean by 'raid5 partition'. If you mean like a regular partition of a device, then the partition can be nearly as bit as the array.... Component devices in a raid5 cannot be larger than 2 terabytes, but I don't think you can buy devices that big yet. 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
