From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 11: 8:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (nexus.root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 593B237B400; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:08:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g2LJ7xI06121; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:07:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:07:59 -0800 From: David Greenman To: Dmitry Morozovsky Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , Matthew Dillon , "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , 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> References: <20020321071754.D96231@nexus.root.com> <20020321191258.J64325-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020321191258.J64325-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>; from marck@rinet.ru on Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:16:34PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message