From: Ron Joffe (rjoffe_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2007 - 15:48:14 CET
From: Ron Joffe <rjoffe@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:48:14 -0500 Message-Id: <200711230948.14713.rjoffe@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?
On Thursday 22 November 2007 09:53, Joseph Marton wrote:
> Any storage person will tell you that unless ABSOLUTELY necessary you
> don't want to use large drives. You are always better off using
> greater quantities of smaller drives rather than smaller quantities of
> larger drives. The more spindles you have in your RAID solution, the
> better.
In general, I completely agree, except this particular setup was not a general
case.
> So obviously this is a *general Linux issue*. So then why all the
> complaints about Novell being at fault?
There are workarounds available in the wild, you are correct that the other
distributions I had tried did not include these patches natively. Isn't this
one of the reasons we pay for SLES, rather then building our own
distributions?
I guess this is all about attitude. If the Novell support tech was able to
tell me "Here is a set of links to some workarounds (GPT, grub, initrd
patches), and we will put it on the list for service Pack X or SLES-X",
rather then saying "upgrade your hardware to IA-64 if you want >2TB disk
support" this would be a closed case.
The knowledge that SLES will not support what I thought was a rather simple
setup took many many days. I have used SuSE (Novell) support in the past for
hardware issues where I have been very happy with the results. This case was
the opposite.
Thanks for everyone's suggestions on this thread. The bottom line is that my
hardware configuration is not supported by SLES (or any other Enterprise
version of Linux).
Ron
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