> The crashing one:
> md: bind<sdd>
> md: bind<sde>
> md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
> md0: setting max_sectors to 4096, segment boundary to 1048575
> raid0: looking at sde
> raid0: comparing sde(5859284992) with sde(5859284992)
> raid0: END
> raid0: ==> UNIQUE
> raid0: 1 zones
> raid0: looking at sdd
> raid0: comparing sdd(5859284992) with sde(5859284992)
> raid0: EQUAL
> raid0: FINAL 1 zones
> raid0: done.
> raid0 : md_size is 11718569984 blocks.
> raid0 : conf->hash_spacing is 11718569984 blocks.
> raid0 : nb_zone is 2.
> raid0 : Allocating 8 bytes for hash.
> JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
>
> The working one:
> md: bind<sde>
> md: bind<sdf>
> md: bind<sdg>
> md: bind<sdd>
> md0: setting max_sectors to 4096, segment boundary to 1048575
> raid0: looking at sdd
> raid0: comparing sdd(2929641472) with sdd(2929641472)
> raid0: END
> raid0: ==> UNIQUE
> raid0: 1 zones
> raid0: looking at sdg
> raid0: comparing sdg(2929641472) with sdd(2929641472)
> raid0: EQUAL
> raid0: looking at sdf
> raid0: comparing sdf(2929641472) with sdd(2929641472)
> raid0: EQUAL
> raid0: looking at sde
> raid0: comparing sde(2929641472) with sdd(2929641472)
> raid0: EQUAL
> raid0: FINAL 1 zones
> raid0: done.
> raid0 : md_size is 11718565888 blocks.
> raid0 : conf->hash_spacing is 11718565888 blocks.
> raid0 : nb_zone is 2.
> raid0 : Allocating 8 bytes for hash.
> JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Brown [mailto:neilb@suse.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:04 p.m.
> To: Michal Piotrowski
> Cc: Jeff Zheng; Ingo Molnar; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org;
> 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 Wednesday May 16,
michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>> Anybody have a clue?
>>>
>>>
>
> No...
> When a raid0 array is assemble, quite a lot of message get printed
> about number of zones and hash_spacing etc. Can you collect and post
> those. Both for the failing case (2*5.5T) and the working case
> (4*2.55T) is possible.
>