Neil Brown wrote:
On Tuesday August 22, steve.cousins@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
Maybe I shouldn't be splitting the drives up into partitions. I did
this due to issues with volumes greater than 2TB. Maybe this isn't an
issue anymore and I should just rebuild the array from scratch with
single partitions. Or should there even be partitions? Should I just
use /dev/sd[abcdefghijk] ?
I tend to just use whole drives, but your set up should work fine.
md/raid isn't limited to 2TB, but some filesystems might have size
issues (though i think even ext2 gots to at least 8 TB these days).
The recent "Messed up creating new array..." thread has someone who
started by using the whole drives but she now wants to use partitions
because the array is not starting automatically on boot (I think that
was the symptom). I'm guessing this is because there is no partigion ID
of "fd" since there isn't even a partition.
I'm on the verge of re-doing this array with 11 full drives (/dev/sd? as
opposed to /dev/sd?1 and /dev/sd?2). Will I have the same problems with
booting? I like the idea of not having to partition the drives but not
if it is going to cause hassles. I realize that there could be a
potential problem if I need to replace a drive with a slightly different
model that is slightly smaller.
Thanks,
Steve
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