From: Joseph Marton (jmmarton_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2007 - 17:31:02 CET
Message-ID: <859ece290711220831g7f710a4kdc2da56a83905fe3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:31:02 -0600 From: "Joseph Marton" <jmmarton@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?
Ah, I didn't see that on the page I was looking at. Must be a new
addition to the hard drive lineup for Dell.
Just like you, it's tough to tell if this is a good configuration or
not. But still I would imagine even if he were to create say one big
RAID5 set that he shouldn't have a problem as the Dell RAID adapter
should still allow him to create multiple logical drives.
I know I purchased a server from nixsys.com with (12) 500GB SATA
drives for a storage server. It's just supposed to be a temporary
server (used for 1 year) so I kept it cheap using SATA drives. With
the 3Ware controller I created one RAID5 set, and originally I also
made it one logical drive. But then I quickly discovered the 2TB
limit for partitions. So I reconfigured the RAID, keeping it as one
RAID5 set, but then enabling a feature in the controller where it will
carve out as many logical drives as necessary but keeping each one two
a limit of 2TB. So then I made /boot and / on the small 500GB logical
drive, which was no problem, while using the two 2TB logical drives as
iSCSI targets. If this wasn't going to be an iSCSI server than
instead instead I might have used LVM to combine the two 2TB drives.
And this was all with SLES10, so I know it works. I'm not sure why
this configuration is being made so difficult. Just keep all logical
drives in the RAID config under 2TB, it's not a huge deal.
Joe
On 11/22/07, Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1TB 7.2K RPM Universal SATA 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive
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