Re: Software RAID/Filesystem problems?

Neil Brown
2002-05-29T00:38:55Z

On Tuesday May 28, kwijibo@zianet.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have run into a problem with software raid with large filesystems.
> I am not sure if this is a software raid limitation or a filesystem
> limitation. I currently have two 3ware raid controllers that have
> 1.1TB (yes, terrabyte) of space on each. I want to stripe the two
> hardware raid controllers using software raid but when I try to make
> the raid using the command mkraid /dev/md0 it pukes out this:

sorry. No-Can-Do. Not in 2.4 anyway. Maybe in 2.6...

2 time 1.1TB > 2TB.

2TB is the most you can access with 32bits addressing for 512byte
sectors.

You are hitting an error at (1K) block 134217729 which is 1 block past
2TB.

If you make the sdb1 and sdc1 partitions less than 1TB you have a
better change of it working.

NeilBrown