On Monday 2012-07-09 23:50, NeilBrown wrote: >> Using mdadm-3.2.2 from openSUSE_12.1: >> >> # modprobe brd rd_size=1 rd_nr=4096 >> # mdadm -C /dev/md9 -l 10 -n 384 /dev/ram{0..383} >> mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata >> Segmentation fault (core dumped) > >It isn't specific to large numbers of devices. Indeed not, it seems to be related to the rather small size of the device :) Using an rd_size=64 (with that old mdadm version) will emit a warning rather than crash, and rd_size=1024 seems to be the first working size. -- 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