Kevan Benson wrote:
I have a 3.5 TB RAID 5 Array through a 3ware 9590SE 8 port card, and am
running into what seems like quite a lot of problems trying to get the system
installed correctly. The system is a running dual Opterons with 2 GB of RAM,
and I'm attempting to install through the x86_64 ServerCD.
First, grub refuses to install on the disk, as it's too large. I can get
around this though by booting Fedora Core 6 in rescue mode and running grub,
as it can deal with the disk size correctly. This might only be working when
I attempt installs that don't utilize as much of the array as possible though
(100 MB /boot, 2GB swap, 10Gb /, the rest left unallocated).
Secondly, there seems to be a problem using msdos disk labels with large
partitions, and I can't seem to find any solutions to this in the manuals or
on the net. GPT labels are offered as a solution to this but only for
Itanium systems.
Am I missing some obvious solution to this? Are there some best practices for
dealing with large disks anyone can share that may save me problems now or
later? I'm open to suggestions, as all I've encountered so far are problems.
On two different systems with hardware similar to yours, I ended up
using 2 different solutions. :) On one, I simply replaced 2 of the
750gig 'cudas in an 8 disk array with 160gig drives and then created a
RAID1 on those 2 drives for the OS. After the OS was installed, I then
used parted to create the gpt label on the large array and created the
filesystem on it.
On another system, I really needed the ports on the 3ware for the array
so I installed a pair of 160gig drives using a cheapo dual port SATA
card and used software RAID 1 on those two drives for the OS install.
After the system was installed, I then used parted to create the GPT
label on the large array and created the filesystem on it.
If you go back through the list archives a bit, you'll see a bunch of
very useful information from a couple of months ago where a number of
people offered excellent tuning suggestions. If you get stuck, shoot me
some email off list and I'll see if I can give you a hand.
Cheers,
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