From: Silviu Marin-Caea (silviu_marin-caea_at_fieldinsights.ro)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2007 - 11:15:09 CET
From: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:15:09 +0200 Message-Id: <200711221215.09074.silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?
On Thursday 22 November 2007 01:05:53 am Ron Joffe wrote:
> I think the point is not being made here. It's not that I do not have
> alternatives, but I have the following hardware:
>
> Dell 2950 with 6 1TB drives.
>
> I want to configure it as a single RAID 10. Why Raid 10? Because that gives
> the best of a combination of performance with a three disk stripe, and the
> redundancy of mirroring.
>
> Yes, I could build it as three RAID 1's, and stripe them in LVM, but I
> would take a performance hit for that.
>
> The issue is that within a very short time we are going to have 2TB disks,
> and does that mean that at some point we will be forced to boot from < 2TB
> drives only ?
>
> GPT labeled disks take care of this issue. Grub2 lets you boot properly
> from GPT labeled drive, or patch current grub and initrd. SLES does not
> support GPT nor grub2.
>
> Novell should be able to easily support this configuration, it's not that
> exotic.
grub2 is not released.
Eventually, Novell will support GPT. Probably with a SLES10 SP or even with
SLES11. I wouldn't bet on SLES9 though.
It has to appear in openSUSE first. I'll try to bring it up for openSUSE 11,
will file and enhancement bug.
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