Collins, Kevin L. wrote, On 08/10/2009 09:52 AM:

Kevin,

> So, I've done a bit of research and found that to get past this limit, I
> need to use parted and GPT labeled drives.  Which seems to be the proper
> way to get this done.  But I've never used GPT labeled drives and I'm
> concerned about issues with failures,  recoveries and expansions.

I used to use GPT, but now use the entire block device w/o laying down
a partition table at all.

Please see:
http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/raidoptimization/

for the justification on this.

--stephen
-- 
Stephen Dowdy  -  Systems Administrator  -  NCAR/RAL
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