From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Cousins Subject: Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare? Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:17:40 -0400 Message-ID: <44EF22A4.73D45C59@maine.edu> References: <44EB5579.4020200@maine.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Joshua Baker-LePain Cc: Justin Piszcz , Linux RAID Mailing List List-Id: linux-raid.ids Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 at 6:34am, Justin Piszcz wrote > > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > >> As for system information, it is (was) a Dual Opteron with CentOS 4.3 (now > >> I'm putting FC5 on it as I write) with a 3Ware 8506-12 SATA RAID card that > >> I am using in JBOD mode so I could do software RAID6. > >> > > > > If you are using SW RAID, there is no 2TB limit. > > Ditto for more recent HW RAIDs. *However*, there are other considerations > when dealing with >2TiB devices. E.g. you can't boot from them. > You are both correct. When I said "due to issues with volumes greater than 2TB" I should have indicated that they were more to do with my issues and/or our environment. I probably wasn't persistent enough with it. I now have a DAS box with >2TB volumes and it is working fine so I should probably start over using no partions and see how it goes. Thanks, Steve