I have a quick question i remember reading somewhere about not using metadata version 0.9 with drives larger than 2tb, > at the moment i have the following > > root@BlueBolt:~# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] > md0 : active raid5 sdd[2] sde[0] sdb[3] sdc[1] > 5860543488 blocks level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] > bitmap: 2/15 pages [8KB], 65536KB chunk > unused devices: <none> > root@BlueBolt:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: > Version : 0.90 > Creation Time : Mon Jul 4 15:08:38 2011 > Raid Level : raid5 > Array Size : 5860543488 (5589.05 GiB 6001.20 GB) > Used Dev Size : 1953514496 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) > Raid Devices : 4 > Total Devices : 4 > Preferred Minor : 0 > Persistence : Superblock is persistent > Intent Bitmap : Internal > Update Time : Mon Oct 10 22:44:11 2011 > State : active > Active Devices : 4 > Working Devices : 4 > Failed Devices : 0 > Spare Devices : 0 > Layout : left-symmetric > Chunk Size : 512K > UUID : ddab6c38:dee3ead0:95ba4558:1c9a49ed (local to host BlueBolt) > Events : 0.2836102 > Number Major Minor RaidDevice State > 0 8 64 0 active sync /dev/sde > 1 8 32 1 active sync /dev/sdc > 2 8 48 2 active sync /dev/sdd > 3 8 16 3 active sync /dev/sdb > which as you can see if using 0.90, i am looking at replacing all the 2tb drives with 3tb versions, would i need to update the metadata version? if so how can i go about this? > thanks > Mike -- 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
