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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is
 5TB
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:16:46 +0200 (MEST)
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On May 16 2007 11:04, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
> I'm getting ready to setup a similar machine that will have 3x10TB (3 15 disk
> arrays with 750G drives), but won't be ready to try this for a few more days.

You could emulate it with VMware. Big disks are quite "cheap" when
they are not allocated.


	Jan
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