On Sun, May 24, 2009 12:34 am, Redeeman wrote: > 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? 60K. It won't let you. 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