5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

Edgar Martinez emartinez at crockettint.com
Fri Apr 15 09:53:38 PDT 2005


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 at allantgroup.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:18 AM
To: Nick Evans
Cc: emartinez at crockettint.com; 'Benson Wong'; 'Nick Pavlica';
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
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 at allantgroup.com



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