<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2658.24"> <TITLE>AW: AW: AW: RAID greater than 2TB on Fedora Core 3</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> > Hi! At the risk of starting another flame war, Christian, we prefer > bottom-posting here on the list. > no problem, maybe you'll already found out that i'm new here ;-)) > > first thanks a lot for this detailed explaination! > > You know me...I'm nothing if not bombastic! :-) > > > but (maybe stupid...), if it's possible to configure > > the blocksize of my raid, it should be possible to access > > greater raids than 2TB, right? > > Uhm, hmmm. Good question. I've never tried it. I don't know if the > mkfs utilities query the block size of the device to set up their inode > tables or not (I'd have though that they'd have to). I suppose you > could give it a whirl and find out. > > If you try it, let me know, willya? I don't have any equipment handy at > the moment that I can sacrifice for an experiment (all our equipment is > busy right now and all my money is tied up in debts!) all right, i'll try it tomorrow and let you know if it's working. i already found some other guy did a mkfs.xfs without running fdisk before to /dev/sda and not /dev/sda1. but when i did this (without changing blocksize) i also get only 2TB.... thanks, christian </BODY> </HTML>