From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:00:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103212832.21920.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412161703290.30336@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Iau, 2004-12-16 at 16:03, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >You can have 4 TByte on one 12-Channel Card,
> >but in two Arrays of 6 HDD's :-)
>
> Maybe some LVM trickery can aggregate ungrowable hardware raids together to a
> single block device.
LVM does not mix with volumes > 2Tb in my experience. I don't know if
anyone has fixed it yet but I'd advise caution.
Remember you don't need a partition table. You can just leave the volume
unpartitioned. You can also use other partition formats providing you
don't need the BIOS boot gunk to boot off that volume.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-16 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-16 14:52 3TB disk hassles Neil Conway
2004-12-16 15:33 ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 15:37 ` Mark Watts
2004-12-16 15:38 ` Hans Kristian Rosbach
2004-12-16 16:44 ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 17:15 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-16 17:38 ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 18:05 ` Tomas Carnecky
2005-02-05 1:47 ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 17:40 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-16 15:52 ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 16:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-16 16:00 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-12-18 0:12 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-18 3:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-18 12:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-18 23:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 17:13 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-01-03 17:32 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-01-03 18:11 ` linux-os
2004-12-16 17:10 ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 19:52 ` Adam Heath
2004-12-16 23:28 ` Pedro Venda (SYSADM)
2005-02-05 1:51 ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 22:21 Rico Tudor
[not found] <fa.fng0mbi.10jm21g@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.ls0rpqi.104a23q@ifi.uio.no>
2005-02-05 2:58 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-02-05 11:14 ` Neil Conway
2005-02-06 10:59 Neil Conway
2005-02-06 19:01 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-02-08 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <linux.kernel.20041216145229.29167.qmail@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
2005-02-10 0:06 ` Jan Lindheim
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