I will be putting /boot and /var /tmp onto 2 80gb RAID1 mirrored
drives, the RAID5 Devices will be used for datastorage only.
Message: 4
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:35:42 -0600
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Max usable disk space
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <1135960542.18911.31.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 03:21, Thomas Cameron 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
> >
> I just found out that fdisk doesn't like raw devices > 2TB. Don't know
> of a way around that limitation, but that's the only one I can think of.
I believe parted will work on partitions over 2TB.
FC 4 will address filesystems up to 8TB, so you should be fine.
Note that you can't boot from partions over 2TB and I'm not
sure if grub knows enough to use them as the root partition
either. With something that size, I think I'd put both
/boot and / on separate partitions, and perhaps leave spares
so that the next OS version could be loaded without destroying
the existing one to minimize chances of extended downtime
later.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
