From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: your mail Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:14:32 -0600 Message-ID: <20090617161432.GS19977@parisc-linux.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:32923 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753366AbZFQQOa (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:14:30 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Koffi Nogbe Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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."