From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262062AbULPX2e (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:28:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262070AbULPX2d (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:28:33 -0500 Received: from salazar.rnl.ist.utl.pt ([193.136.164.251]:37087 "EHLO admin.rnl.ist.utl.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262062AbULPX2a (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:28:30 -0500 Message-ID: <41C21A1A.7010606@rnl.ist.utl.pt> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:28:26 +0000 From: "Pedro Venda (SYSADM)" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Conway Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles References: <20041216145229.29167.qmail@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041216145229.29167.qmail@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? is there a good reason why one should mix system & storage? I think that would solve your problem. regards, pedro venda. -- Pedro João Lopes Venda email: pjvenda@rnl.ist.utl.pt http://maxwell.rnl.ist.utl.pt Equipa de Administração de Sistemas Rede das Novas Licenciaturas (RNL) Instituto Superior Técnico http://www.rnl.ist.utl.pt http://mega.ist.utl.pt