Re: [Evms-devel] Possible to create a degraded RAID5 array withEVMS?

[Mike T. <mh...@us...>]

James Lee wrote:

> I should have mentioned: the version of mdadm I was using is the 
> default version which ships with Ubuntu: 1.11.0.
>
> And I was using version 0.9 superblocks (both for the mdadm arrays, 
> and for the arrays created by EVMS).  Is there an advantage to using a 
> version 1.0 superblock rather than the older 0.9 versions?
>
At the very least, I can think of 2:
- version 1 superblock is endian neutral
- With version  0.9, md device has a maximum of 27 disks/partitions.  
With a 1024-byte version 1 superblock, the limit  is 384

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Regards,
Mike T.