From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Koffi Nogbe <kofnews@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:14:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090617161432.GS19977@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a93061060906170908wbc8347ch366a1f30bc357672@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:08:03PM -0400, Koffi Nogbe wrote:
> How can I modify the kernel to be able to create unlimited partition
> on a single drive.
You can't in any sensible way.
> The reason for the question is I want to use one of
> my box as a storage server for fast access to the be able to create my
> RAID across all drives all the time so I want to slice the drives into
> multiple 2GB partition and used that in the RAID then use LVM to put
> it together. With SCSI drive I m stock with 15 partitions and with IDE
> 20. Any help is appreciated.
Sounds like you want to use LVM to create lots of PEs, then tie them
together into RAIDs. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/tyingittogether.html
may be helpful.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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2009-06-17 16:08 (unknown), Koffi Nogbe
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2003-01-17 0:35 ` your mail William Lee Irwin III
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