[techtalk] RAID-0 w/ >12 disks

Olivier Tharan olive at minet.net
Thu Sep 7 09:13:25 EST 2000


Le 06 septembre 2000, -sjh- écrivait :
> I need to build a stripe set across 20 physical disks, but when I try to
> mkraid /dev/md0, I am told I can only use a max of 12 physical disks.  Does
> anyone know how I can get around this?  Thanks in advance!

Well, from the kernel sources v2.2.14, <linux/raid/md_k.h> defines
MAX_REAL to 12 (max number of disks per md dev).

I do not know how increasing this value would affect the rest, but it
could be worth a try.

olive
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