From: Neil Conway <nconway_kernel@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Pedro Venda \(SYSADM\)" <pjvenda@rnl.ist.utl.pt>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:51:46 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050205015146.11761.qmail@web26503.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C21A1A.7010606@rnl.ist.utl.pt>
Howdy...
--- "Pedro Venda (SYSADM)" <pjvenda@rnl.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
> > Howdy...
> > After much banging of heads on walls, I am throwing in the towel
> and
> > asking the experts ;-) ... To cut a long story short:
> > Is it possible to make a 3TB disk work properly in Linux?
> > Our "disk" is 12x300GB in RAID5 (with 1 hot-spare) on a 3ware
> 9500-S12,
> > so it's actually 2.7TiB ish. It's also /dev/sda - i.e., the one
> and
> > only disk in the system.
>
> not meaning to criticise... but isn't it a good idea to have a
> separate raid1 volume to boot the system?
Well, yes, and we would if we could. Sadly, the chassis we got from
our vendor only has space for the 12 hot-swap disks, and we need the
capacity too badly to lose 2 slots for a boot volume. If only we could
take a sliver of each of the 12 disks to make a tiny RAID5 boot
volume...
Regards,
Neil
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-05 1:55 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
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 [this message]
2004-12-16 22:21 Rico Tudor
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[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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