On Thu Nov 13, 2008 at 10:20:25AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
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> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Robin Hill wrote:
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>> On Thu Nov 13, 2008 at 09:46:23AM -0500, Ryan Wagoner wrote:
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>>> I have a RAID 5 array with 3 TB drives. When reading through the list
>>> I realized that the v0.90 superblock doesn't support arrays over 2TB.
>>> This means I can never grow this array to 4 drives?
>>>
>> That's my understanding, yes.
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> I grew 400GiB drives in a raid5 configuration from 1.8TiB to 3.3TiB one at
> a time with the 0.90 superblock (I believe), is that limit correct?
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> It was awhile ago but FYI.
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You're right - it's definitely not correct. I actually have a 2.7TiB
RAID array with 0.90 superblock right here as well *oops*. According to
the manual pages, the limit is on _component devices_, not on the
overall RAID array.
Cheers,
Robin
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