Peter, Please keep the list updated with your progress. I have not heard any success stories with multi-TB filesystems yet. The PATA controllers from 3ware I have used have a 1TB limit per RAID unit (I know it is possible, but I have not used LVM etc. to build a bigger virtual drive.) FYI: The 1 TB server I have now is too small. :( I have a very tall tower that has 15 drive slots, I would love to build a multi-TB fileserver out of that. :) Also, very curious about performance, etc. Greg -- Greg Freemyer On 5/9/05, Peter M. Bloomfield wrote:
On Monday 09 May 2005 10:03, Peter M. Bloomfield wrote:
I have built a system a couple of 3Ware 12 port SATA RAID controllers (model 9500s-12MI). I have attached 12 Hitachi 400 GB disks each of the 3Ware controller and have built a level 5 RAID through the 3Ware software. When the system is booted it sees the devices as scsi disks, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc.
The problems I have come when I define a partition table for the disks. I can able to define a file system larger than 2GB using reiserfs. I can not create two partitions of 2TB each, e.g. sdb1 and sdb2. I have looked on the web and seen that the limit for reiserfs is 16TB, so I know it is something I have overlooked, or have made a mistake with (more likely). I have searched for a 'how to' to walk me through this, but with no success.
System: Motherboard : Tyan Thunder i7520/S5360 CPU : 2 x 2.8 GHz Xeon Memory : 2 GB OS : SuSE 9.2 64-bit (still waiting for 9.3) Kernel : 2.6.8-24.14-smp
If anyone has any suggestions they will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Peter M. Bloomfield
I have found a solution.
You need to use 'parted' to create the partition before using mkreiserfs to format it. I have now 2 4 TB partitions.
Sorry for bothering the list.
Peter M. Bloomfield
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