Hello. I have just created a raid6 array with 8 1tb drives, and it uses the default metadata 0.9. I have been reading up on write intent bitmaps, and i wish to create an internal one. I read about different chunk sizes yielding different performance costs, but one thing i wonder is, how much space is reserved in the superblock for the bitmap? and what happens if i try to create a bitmap which would take more than the reserved space? this is the --detail of the array: /dev/md0: Version : 00.90 Creation Time : Fri May 22 23:38:18 2009 Raid Level : raid6 Array Size : 5860559616 (5589.07 GiB 6001.21 GB) Used Dev Size : 976759936 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB) Raid Devices : 8 Total Devices : 8 Preferred Minor : 0 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sat May 23 16:33:50 2009 State : active Active Devices : 8 Working Devices : 8 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Chunk Size : 64K UUID : 8a52684a:161d95d0:2cd51773:dd992753 (local to host ida) Events : 0.7 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 3 8 49 3 active sync /dev/sdd1 4 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1 5 8 81 5 active sync /dev/sdf1 6 8 97 6 active sync /dev/sdg1 7 8 113 7 active sync /dev/sdh1 mvh. Kasper Sandberg -- 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