On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:22 -0600, Jason Ragsdale wrote: > All, > I am looking to build a NSF server starting with: > 4 x 300GB drives RAID5, and adding 4 more 500GB RAID5 drives later. Is > there a max filesystem size limit with fedora core 4? Or are there any > other options that may cause me issues later down the road? Thanks in > advance. > -Jason > What type of RAID? Software? Hardware? JBOD? If you're using software RAID, fdisk 2TB limit is no problem, as you will be partitioning one drive at a time. More-ever, put lvm on top of the RAID array; The performance hit is negligible and it adds immense flexibility. I second the parted suggestion. It's the only partitioning tool capable of handing >2TB RAW partitions. Cheers, Gilboa
