From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "bmoon" Subject: Re: maximum disk capacity? Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:21:52 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <016501c331d0$48854d00$6b01a8c0@bmoon> References: <007201c330b9$c316f310$3001a8c0@melkor> <16104.22361.508001.916567@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <00db01c330ca$5ae72290$3001a8c0@melkor> <200306121814.32072.bernd-schubert@web.de> <009001c3313d$54027880$df01010a@moon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Stephan van Hienen , Donghui Wen Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids What is the reason that it can not cover more than 2TB? By the way you are able to use more than 2TB, ~2.3TB??? Why? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephan van Hienen" To: "Donghui Wen" Cc: Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:51 AM Subject: Re: maximum disk capacity? > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Donghui Wen wrote: > > > Hi, I am setting up hardware raid with 7 harddrives on redhat linux. > > I use 3ware + hardware raid 5, each harddrive is 200G. For > > linux, this raid sould act as a 1.2TB scsi hard drive. But it seems > > redhat could not reconize it. I am wondering may be a 1.2TB hard drive > > is too large to linux. So my question is: what't > > the maxium disk capacity Linux can support? > > no problem till 2TB > if you need to go above to 2TB, you need the largedisk patch > which doesn't work with sw raid5 (so no 2TB+ with sw raid5) > > i'm running with 13*180GB (+1 Hotspare) in sw raid5 (hd's > connected to 2*3ware 7850) > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >