Re: bootable RAID, number of member disks limitation

2013-01-08 Thread Jordan Uggla
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Chris Murphy ch...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com wrote: GRUB has no limitation on number on devices other than free memory to hold structures and 2^32 for IDs. If there is any

Re: bootable RAID, number of member disks limitation

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 4, 2013, at 12:42 AM, Chris Murphy ch...@colorremedies.com wrote: With md RAID only (no Btrfs), ls reports: (md/root) (hd0) (hd0,msdos1) (hd1) (hd1,msdos1) (hd2) (hd1,msdos2) Also with 11 devices attached. Chris Murphy ___ Grub-devel

bootable RAID, number of member disks limitation

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Murphy
I'm finding GRUB2 will boot from md RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, with /boot in the array, up to six member devices. At device 7, GRUB2 fails to boot the array, drops to a grub rescue prompt saying the mduuid couldn't be found. With Btrfs single and RAID 0 profiles, /boot on Btrfs is bootable for up to 4

Re: bootable RAID, number of member disks limitation

2013-01-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 03.01.2013 21:28, Chris Murphy wrote: I'm finding GRUB2 will boot from md RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, with /boot in the array, up to six member devices. At device 7, GRUB2 fails to boot the array, drops to a grub rescue prompt saying the mduuid couldn't be found. With Btrfs single and RAID 0

Re: bootable RAID, number of member disks limitation

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com wrote: GRUB has no limitation on number on devices other than free memory to hold structures and 2^32 for IDs. If there is any other limit it's a bug and please file a bug report with the images in question