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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:07:59 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, mrcpu@internetcds.com, clash@tasam.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB)
Message-ID:  <20020321110759.G96231@nexus.root.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020321191258.J64325-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>; from marck@rinet.ru on Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:16:34PM %2B0300
References:  <20020321071754.D96231@nexus.root.com> <20020321191258.J64325-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>

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>Not that exactly, maybe I'd not clear enough...
>
>Suppose you have bunch of currently available 160G disks. AFAICC we *can*
>split eacho of them into 2 partitions of 80G each, and then stripe/RAID5
>these into two 560G (thus allowed) RAID5 vinum. Or did I miss something?

   As long as no single physical or logical disk is larger than 1TB (as in
your example), then it will work fine.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com
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