RE: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB

From: Jeff Zheng
Date: Wed May 16 2007 - 17:42:45 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 6:17 a.m.
To: david@xxxxxxx
Cc: Andreas Dilger; Jeff Zheng; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk
is 5TB


On May 16 2007 11:04, david@xxxxxxx 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
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