Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:28:26 +0000 | From | "Pedro Venda (SYSADM)" <> | Subject | Re: 3TB disk hassles |
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Neil Conway wrote: > Howdy... > > After much banging of heads on walls, I am throwing in the towel and > asking the experts ;-) ... To cut a long story short: > > Is it possible to make a 3TB disk work properly in Linux? > > Our "disk" is 12x300GB in RAID5 (with 1 hot-spare) on a 3ware 9500-S12, > so it's actually 2.7TiB ish. It's also /dev/sda - i.e., the one and > only disk in the system.
not meaning to criticise... but isn't it a good idea to have a separate raid1 volume to boot the system?
is there a good reason why one should mix system & storage?
I think that would solve your problem.
regards, pedro venda.
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