Marc Mutz wrote:
>
> Jason Titus wrote:
> >
> > We've been working on getting a x86 Linux system together that would support
> > both RAID and larger then 2 GB file sizes - so far with little luck. RAID
> > works fine on 2.2 kernels, and > 2GB files works on 2.3 kernels but RAID
> > doesn't seem to like 2.3 (or at least the 2.3.34 w/ the included RAID).
> > When we attempt to make the ext2 filesystem on the RAID 1 drive, it kernel
> > panics.
> >
> > Seems like this is pretty key for Linux to be used in large data server
> > environments. Has anyone else gotten RAID working with large files on
> > Intel?
> >
>
> 2.3.x are _not_ the kernels one wants to use in production environment.
> 2.4 will surely have an up-to-date raid implementation.
> if you need >2GB filesize support and RAID _now_, go buy a non-intel
> system (alpha, sparc64), or a hardware raid controller that is supported
> under 2.2.13.
that's nice in theory, but a lot of commercial giant database people
(oracle, sybase, etc.) only support Linux on x86.
-s
