ataraid and 1TB+ storage?

Daniel Eriksson daniel_k_eriksson at telia.com
Tue Nov 23 13:58:02 PST 2004


I wrote:

> ERROR:
> ------
> # atacontrol create RAID0 128 ad4 ad5 ad6 ad7 ad8 ad9
> ar0: 9007199253788533MB <ATA RAID0 array> [1499975777/255/63] 

As can be seen here, the size is not 1.2TB. Trying to create a filesystem on
the device fails with a warning about it having a preposterous(sp?) size.

Striping the 6 discs using gstripe seems to work just fine.

/Daniel Eriksson




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