On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 08:45:34PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:52:50 +0100 Gionatan Danti <g.danti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think I know what you are talking about now. The md driver in the kernel > supports two sorts of 'far' or 'offset' layouts for arrays where the number > of devices is not an integer multiple of the number of copies. > This has been supported in Linux since v3.9. but is not yet supported by > mdadm. Hmm, we discussed also the new layouts for when the number of drives are a whole multiple of the number of copies. That layout should follow the same principles. How do I generate the new format on kernel 3.9? best regards keld -- 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