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Subject: RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
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OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if you would
care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone wants me to do
some experiments or test something, let me know...I for one welcome any
attempts at pushing any limits or trying new things...

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@allantgroup.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:18 AM
To: Nick Evans
Cc: emartinez@crockettint.com; 'Benson Wong'; 'Nick Pavlica';
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Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

In the last episode (Apr 15), Nick Evans said:
> You'll need to use GPT to make this work for anything over 2TB. Man
> gpt

Or don't bother with a partition table at all, which makes growing the
filesystem later on quite a bit easier.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com