Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932117AbXEPVmo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 17:42:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760381AbXEPVmg (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 17:42:36 -0400 Received: from 203-97-71-235.dsl.clear.net.nz ([203.97.71.235]:62021 "EHLO gazelle.ad.endace.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759818AbXEPVmf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 17:42:35 -0400 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Subject: RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:42:33 +1200 Message-ID: <659F626D666070439A4A5965CD6EBF406B3324@gazelle.ad.endace.com> In-Reply-To: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB Thread-Index: AceX5sBqavNueZvmT42IsTccYenyHQAHDAXA References: <659F626D666070439A4A5965CD6EBF406836C6@gazelle.ad.endace.com> <20070516140452.GC5286@schatzie.adilger.int> From: "Jeff Zheng" To: "Jan Engelhardt" , Cc: "Andreas Dilger" , , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 997 Lines: 32 Problem is that is only happens when you actually write data to the raid. You need the actual space to reproduce the problem. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Jan Engelhardt [mailto:jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de] Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 6:17 a.m. To: david@lang.hm Cc: Andreas Dilger; Jeff Zheng; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB On May 16 2007 11:04, david@lang.hm wrote: > > I'm getting ready to setup a similar machine that will have 3x10TB (3 > 15 disk arrays with 750G drives), but won't be ready to try this for a few more days. You could emulate it with VMware. Big disks are quite "cheap" when they are not allocated. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/