[Centos] Re: What's the biggest software raid partition?

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Is it correct that the maximum number of drives you can put on a single
RAID5 array is 8 drives?
If this is the case then you will need to make two separate RAID5 arrays,
since you have 10 drives. 
I recently setup a 16x300GB RAID, but had to setup two separate arrays.
The card I used was an Adaptec 16channel card.

Kind Regards,
Imran Boota


-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain
Sent: 16 March 2005 15:37
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ho Chaw Ming
Subject: [Centos] Re: What's the biggest software raid partition?

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 at 12:00pm, Ho Chaw Ming wrote

> I just installed CentOS 3.3 (Will try 4 later). I have 10 x 250GB 
> harddisk which I build in a Raid-5 Config.
> 
*snip*

> Is there a size limitation to the biggest software raid on a default 
> kernel installation?

Yes -- 2TB with CentOS 3.  CentOS 4 will get you past that limitation.

--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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