On Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:08 AM John Robinson wrote: > On 13/12/2012 16:45, Phillip Susi wrote: > > It appears that the imsm format only uses 32 bits to represent the > > sector counts used from each disk. It appears that at least on > > Windows, a disk > 2 TB works > > It certainly does. I built a Supermicro server with 3TB drives and IMSM RAID a > couple of weeks ago. > > > so could someone from intel explain how this is supposed to work? > > I'd be interested too. If I need to expand the array on the above, I was > expecting to use a Linux live CD and mdadm to do the reshape. > The IMSM metadata uses 64 bits to represent sizes (saved in *_lo and *_hi parts 32 bits each): http://git.neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm.git;a=commitdiff;h=5551b113dc18a6275fb04c7e7e3b76c656926e0a Lukasz -- 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
