Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:19:41 +1100 | Subject | Re: md and RAID 5 [was Re: LVM2] |
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On Friday January 21, tadams-lists@myrealbox.com wrote: > Thank you all for having been so kind in your responses and help. > > However, there is one more set of questions I have. > > Does the md (software raid) have disk size or raid volume limits?
2^31 sectors for individual disks. Arrays do not have this limit.
> > If I am using such things as USB or 1394 disks, is there a way to use > labels in /etc/raidtab and with the tools so that when the disks, if > they do, get renumbered in /dev that all works fine. I am aware that the > kernel will autodetect these devices, but that the raidtab needs to be > consistent. This is what I am trying to figure out how to do.
Scrap raidtools and /etc/raidtab. Explore "mdadm" and /etc/mdadm.conf
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