Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 20, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:32:03PM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: >> On 20.6.2011 21:19, Stephen Harris wrote: > >>> LVM; pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate. What's a partition? :-) >> >> But your filesystem has still to be aligned correctly. Is lvm 4k

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-20 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:46:18 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:32:03PM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > > On 20.6.2011 21:19, Stephen Harris wrote: > > > > LVM; pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate. What's a partition? :-) > > > > But your filesystem has still to be aligned

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:32:03PM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > On 20.6.2011 21:19, Stephen Harris wrote: > > LVM; pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate. What's a partition? :-) > > But your filesystem has still to be aligned correctly. Is lvm 4k > friendly ? Is md ? That is a very good question, and one

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/20/2011 2:32 PM, Markus Falb wrote: > On 20.6.2011 21:19, Stephen Harris wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:29:50PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >>> On 6/18/2011 8:51 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: Only if I'm partitioning the disk, surely. If I just throw the whole raw disk into mdadm (

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-20 Thread Markus Falb
On 20.6.2011 21:19, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:29:50PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >> On 6/18/2011 8:51 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: >>> Only if I'm partitioning the disk, surely. If I just throw the whole >>> raw disk into mdadm (sdd, sde, sdf...) then isn't partitioning >>> i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:29:50PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On 6/18/2011 8:51 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > > Only if I'm partitioning the disk, surely. If I just throw the whole > > raw disk into mdadm (sdd, sde, sdf...) then isn't partitioning > > irrelevant? > > So...you were planning on tre

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/20/2011 1:34 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On 6/18/2011 8:00 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: >> >> I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work in this scenario; > > I've tried 3 TB disks on a 32-bit CentOS 5 box, plugged into generic > Intel PIIX on-board SATA ports. It seemed to work fine. > > I only

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-20 Thread Warren Young
On 6/18/2011 8:00 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > > I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work in this scenario; I've tried 3 TB disks on a 32-bit CentOS 5 box, plugged into generic Intel PIIX on-board SATA ports. It seemed to work fine. I only did it to see if it would work, so I currently have n

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-20 Thread Warren Young
On 6/18/2011 8:51 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:13:00PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:00:25 PM Stephen Harris wrote: >>> But space is running out; I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work >>> in this scenario; most importantly will 2.6.18-238.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-18 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:13:00PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:00:25 PM Stephen Harris wrote: > > But space is running out; I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work > > in this scenario; most importantly will 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE see the > > whole disk? And also wh

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

2011-06-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:00:25 PM Stephen Harris wrote: > But space is running out; I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work > in this scenario; most importantly will 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE see the > whole disk? And also whether I need to be worried about 4Kbyte sectors. You'll have to cha