On 2 December 2014 at 17:26, Anshuman Aggarwal <anshuman.aggarwal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It works! (Atleast on a sample 5 MB device with 5 x 1MB partitions :-) > will find more space on my drives and do a larger test but don't see > why it shouldn't work) > Here are the following caveats (and questions): > - Neil, like you pointed out, the power of 2 chunk size will probably > need a code change (in the kernel or only in the userspace tool?) > - Any performance or other reasons why a terabyte size chunk may > not be feasible? > - Implications of safe_mode_delay > - Would the metadata be updated on the block device be written to > and the parity device as well? > - If the drive fails which is the same as the drive being written > to, would that lack of metadata updates to the other devices affect > reconstruction? > - Adding new devices (is it possible to move the parity to the disk > being added? How does device addition work for RAID4 ...is it added as > a zero-ed out device with parity disk remaining the same) > > Neil, sorry to try to bump this thread. Could you please look over the questions and address the points on the remaining items that can make it a working solution? 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
