Subject: Re: Big RAIDframe
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/05/2007 21:05:28
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:31:46PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> Is RAIDframe terabyte-clean?  In particular, if I RAIDframe together
> partitions so as to produce a RAID volume larger than 2TB, will the
> resulting volume work?  (Okay, let's say not, does it work, but raer,
> should it work.  Unless someone has experience saying it does, which
> would be very welcome.)

I have a 3TB volume, build with a raid0 concatenating 2 1.5TB volume.
You can't partition it but if you use the raw partition it works fine.

> 
> This is under 3.0.  If it doesn't work on 3.0 but does on something
> later, that information too would be welcome.  It's a live production
> machine with important data on it, so I can't casually try things that
> might roach the data.

I'm not sure I tried in 3.0. This box is actually running 3.1_STABLE

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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