Hello Joel,

Friday, March 23, 2007, 11:16:20 AM, you wrote:

>>   We  are  looking  to  buy  an  HP  ProLiant  DL320s server with about 5-8
>> terabyte  of  storage  and  Smart Array P400 or P800 for a backup purposes.
>> According to www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ciss&arch=i386&sektion=4
>> it should be supported in -current, but "the current code only supports one
>> logical   volume  per  controller". This scared me because according to the
>> FAQ  there  is "a 1T limit on the size of the physical disk", but I need to
>> utilize much more.
>> 
>>   What does "logical volume" mean here - RAID set or LUN ?
>> 
>>   In the other words, is there any way to use that storage with OBSD ?


JK> The FAQ is referring to a RAID volume.

JK> You should search the archives for discussion of the 1TB limit.

  Again,  what is "RAID volume" - RAID set or LUN ? Can I have 10 LANs (for
example) and see them as separate devices (like sd0, sd1, sd2, etc) ?
  Then I wont need to worry about a terabyte limit.

-- 
Best regards,
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