On 03/29/2014 02:48 PM, Pritam Khedekar wrote:
Bro just install normally and then try to config RAID 10 ... I guess
you are looking for virtual RAID isn't it?
On 3/29/2014 5:19 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Stephen John Smoogen
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 28 March 2014 14:42, CS_DBA <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All;
I have a server which we've setup with 2 - 500GB drives and 6 - 4TB
drives
I want to mirror the 2 500GB drives as a RAID 1 volume - works as
expected
However I also want to add all 6 4TB drives to a single RAID 10 RAID
device
I try and create a raid volume, choose one of the 4TB drives and it
wont
let me select more than 2TB of space. Can someone give some
insight on how
to pull this off?
This is going to depend on a couple of factors:
1) If you are using SciLin-5 there may be a limit to the size of
disk that
it can use.
2) If you are using SciLin-6 it should be able to work because I
believe it
uses gparted but it might only use that if your system booted in
UEFI mode.
In BIOS mode or if it uses fdisk then it can only be used for disks no
larger than 2TB.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
Not 100% sure but if the 500GB drives are set up to be /boot (msdos
partition), then the other drives can be partitioned using GPT. If
this is plausible, then UEFI mode is not required and GPT allows disks
larger than 2TB.
Akemi
Thanks everyone for the advice, here's my plan at the moment:
1) install the OS only on the 2 500GB drives (in a RAID 1 config)
2) then once it's up and running use something like gdisk to create the
4TB partitions...
Question, can someone point me to a how to per taking the 6 4TB drives
and doing the following once they are all partitioned:
- set each drive as a raid partition
- create a single RAID 10 device from the partitions
- have the volume auto mount (via fstab?) at boot time
Thanks in advance
