-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18/03/2010 10:09:55, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote: >> Hi, >> We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of >> harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran >> into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we >> couldn't create a larger RAID5 than 1.99TB. > > > That is strange, since all the 3ware 9000-series controllers (including > the 9650) are supposed to be able to handle arrays larger than 2TB.
Is it perhaps not a limitation in the 3ware controller, but rather the 2TB limit for a single slice imposed by the traditional DOS mbr? In which case, simply switching to using gpart(8) should solve the problem and let you have much larger filesystems. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuh/1EACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxwFQCfUsDOes4mAPBFLQUX6QvB/F97 4swAnRnKagfg86IG5gxBlMIBJOmmD7y+ =BGlc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"