<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2658.24"> <TITLE>AW: RAID greater than 2TB on Fedora Core 3</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi Rick, is it really (nowadays??) a problem of SCSI-controler? thanks, christian -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [<A HREF="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</A>] Im Auftrag von Rick Stevens Gesendet: Montag, 04. April 2005 19:49 An: For users of Fedora Core releases Betreff: Re: RAID greater than 2TB on Fedora Core 3 Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:13:40AM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > >>If you are just trying to use all of the raw disk space you have in a >>single file system then you probably don't want raid, you want to use >>LVM. LVM creates logical volumes across multiple drives and allows you >>to create very large file systems. Understand though that this is not >>raid, it does not provide redundancy if one of the hard drives fails. > > > PS. Don't use FC3's LVM2/device-mapper with stripes > 1TB or > you risk data corruption. > > You need userspace lvm2 >= 2.01.03 and kernel >= 2.6.11-rc4. Also keep in mind that the 2TB limit is not a Linux limitation, but is an inherent limitation in SCSI. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. <A HREF="http://www.vitalstream.com" TARGET="_blank">http://www.vitalstream.com</A> - - - - There are only 10 kinds of people in the world -- those who - - understand binary and those who don't - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" TARGET="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</A> </BODY> </HTML>