Apologies to Justin for failing to reply to all the first time.
Justin Piszcz wrote:
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?
It was awhile ago but FYI.
Justin.
I have 8 500GB drives in a RAID 5...
[root@space ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md3 : active raid5 sdh1[3] sdg1[2] sdf1[1] sde1[0] sdd1[7] sdc1[5]
sdb1[4] sda1[6]
3418687552 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/8] [UUUUUUUU]
[root@space ~]# mdadm -D /dev/md3
/dev/md3:
Version : 00.90.03
Creation Time : Wed Jan 9 18:57:53 2008
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 3418687552 (3260.31 GiB 3500.74 GB)
Used Dev Size : 488383936 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB)
Raid Devices : 8
Total Devices : 8
Preferred Minor : 3
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Nov 13 05:43:22 2008
State : clean
Active Devices : 8
Working Devices : 8
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 64K
UUID : 382c157a:405e0640:c30f9e9e:888a5e63
Events : 0.1575598
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 65 0 active sync /dev/sde1
1 8 81 1 active sync /dev/sdf1
2 8 97 2 active sync /dev/sdg1
3 8 113 3 active sync /dev/sdh1
4 8 17 4 active sync /dev/sdb1
5 8 33 5 active sync /dev/sdc1
6 8 1 6 active sync /dev/sda1
7 8 49 7 active sync /dev/sdd1
[root@space ~]# df -k /dev/md3
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md3 3365042864 2732709404 598146588 83% /Space
[root@space ~]#
Regards,
Steve.
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