----- "Neil Brown" <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:15:04 -0600 (CST) > Using old software on new hardware.... > When using Debian, I would recommend the -testing version for new > hardware.... > (not that I am prepared to back-up that recommendation with support). > > However I suspect Debian5 should be able to be made to work with your > setup. Hrmm, will look into that. > > The default metadata layout has a maximum of 28 devices. If you want > more, > add > --metadata=1.0 > > You won't be able to use in-kernel autodetect, but you shouldn't need > to with > Debian, even at that vintage. > Argh, I see the note now in the man page. I missed it. Funny that google did not return that/man page/etc when I searched for things like "maximum number of drives in mdadm array" etc. > I'm surprised it didn't work with '2', or did you mean "42" ? > Yes, sorry for the confusion. Thanks. -- 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
