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<body>>For a gross device size of 1,610,612,736 kiB (1,536 GiB), your available
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">net size is 1,610,366,940 kiB, so since your calculation yielded a </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">somewhat smaller net size, it would have been sufficiently accurate to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">enable creation of the DRBD meta data in the empty space behind the file </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">system. </span><div><br /></div><div>>Here are the calculation results from the algorithms also used in LINSTOR:
</div><div><br /></div><div>>Calculation results
</div><div>>***
</div><div>>Peers: 5
</div><div>>Activity log size: 32 kiB ( 64 sectors)
</div><div>>Activitiy log stripes: 1
</div><div>>***
</div><div>>Net size: 1610366940 kiB ( 3220733880 sectors)
</div><div>> (~ 1.50 TiB)
</div><div>>Gross size: 1610612736 kiB ( 3221225472 sectors)
</div><div>> (~ 1.50 TiB)
</div><div>>Effective meta data size: 245796 kiB ( 491592 sectors)
</div><div>> (~ 240.04 MiB)
</div><div><br /></div><div>>Unless I mistyped something, these results should be accurate.</div><div><br /></div><div>I see, since it's pretty close & sufficient, I think I'll use Sgross / 32768 * Cpeer + 1
</div><div>MiB in the future if needed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you so much for the help, Mr. Robert and Mr. Adam.</div></body></html>