On Wed, 12 August, 2009 10:06 am, David Cure wrote: > I want to create an raid6 array and I see an limit of number of > devices : with 27 devices the array is created, and with 28 I've got > this error : > mdadm: invalid number of raid devices: 28 > > I use kernel 2.6.30 (from backport) and mdadm - v2.6.7.2 - 14th > November 2008 on Debian Lenny. > > Is there a way to pass out this limit ? The limit is only with version 0.90 metadata, which is the default. I'd recommend you do a bit of reading to pick metadata version 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2, according to any requirements you may have, then tell mdadm what your choice is with --metadata= while creating your array. Cheers, John. -- 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
