AW: RAID greater than 2TB on Fedora Core 3

[Masopust Christian]

Hi Rick,

is it really (nowadays??) a problem of SCSI-controler?

thanks,
christian
 

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
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 at vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
-                                                                    -
-     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 at redhat.com
To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20050404/fcf0130e/attachment-0002.html