mdadm question
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Quoted 8 lines · ----- "Neil Brown
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:15:04 -0600 (CST)
Using old software on new hardware....
When using Debian, I would recommend the -testing version for new hardware....
(not that I am prepared to back-up that recommendation with support).However I suspect Debian5 should be able to be made to work with your setup.
Hrmm, will look into that.
Quoted 10 lines
The default metadata layout has a maximum of 28 devices. If you want more,
add
--metadata=1.0You won't be able to use in-kernel autodetect, but you shouldn't need to with
Debian, even at that vintage.
Argh, I see the note now in the man page. I missed it. Funny that google did not return that/man page/etc when I searched for things like "maximum number of drives in mdadm array" etc.
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I'm surprised it didn't work with '2', or did you mean "42" ?
Yes, sorry for the confusion.
Thanks.