On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:08:03PM -0400, Koffi Nogbe wrote: > How can I modify the kernel to be able to create unlimited partition > on a single drive. You can't in any sensible way. > The reason for the question is I want to use one of > my box as a storage server for fast access to the be able to create my > RAID across all drives all the time so I want to slice the drives into > multiple 2GB partition and used that in the RAID then use LVM to put > it together. With SCSI drive I m stock with 15 partitions and with IDE > 20. Any help is appreciated. Sounds like you want to use LVM to create lots of PEs, then tie them together into RAIDs. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/tyingittogether.html may be helpful. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
