Re: [CentOS] Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks

2020-09-25 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 24, 2020, at 10:25 PM, Amey Abhyankar wrote: > > I referred = https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product > But slightly confused with the 'maximum file size' row for ext4 FS. CentOS 8 defaults to XFS, not to ext4, so that row has no bearing on your use case. Although I wouldn’t recommend

Re: [CentOS] Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks

2020-09-24 Thread John Pierce
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 9:26 PM Amey Abhyankar wrote: > Hello, > > I have a blade server with SAS HDD's of 12TB in total. > 3 HDD's of 4TB each. > > Is it possible to install Cent OS 7.8.2003 on 12TB disk space? > I will be installing Cent OS on the bare metal HW. > > the SAS hardware has to be

Re: [CentOS] Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks

2020-09-24 Thread Pierre Malard
Hi, We have servers with 500 Tb in line with SAS attachment on a SAN without any problem! It’s perhaps a firmware problem with your SAS card, no? > Le 25 sept. 2020 à 06:25, Amey Abhyankar a écrit : > > Hello, > > I have a blade server with SAS HDD's of 12TB in total. > 3 HDD's of 4TB each.

Re: [CentOS] Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks

2020-09-24 Thread R C
what I typically rather do is install the OS on a way smaller drive, that way if the OS drive is trashed, the data array is still there,  also, it is easier to create a clean install that way. (of course a partition could work too). On 9/24/20 10:34 PM, Amey Abhyankar wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep

Re: [CentOS] Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks

2020-09-24 Thread Amey Abhyankar
On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 09:57, R C wrote: > > I have done it numerous times. Thanks Digimer & R C for the quick help. I am going to touch the blade servers after a gap of decade hence I was in doubt :-) The Cloud computing era has wiped my knowledge about server HW & OS compatibility :-/

Re: [CentOS] Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks

2020-09-24 Thread Digimer
On 2020-09-25 12:25 a.m., Amey Abhyankar wrote: > Hello, > > I have a blade server with SAS HDD's of 12TB in total. > 3 HDD's of 4TB each. > > Is it possible to install Cent OS 7.8.2003 on 12TB disk space? > I will be installing Cent OS on the bare metal HW. > > I referred =

Re: [CentOS] Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks

2020-09-24 Thread R C
I have done it numerous times. On 9/24/20 10:25 PM, Amey Abhyankar wrote: Hello, I have a blade server with SAS HDD's of 12TB in total. 3 HDD's of 4TB each. Is it possible to install Cent OS 7.8.2003 on 12TB disk space? I will be installing Cent OS on the bare metal HW. I referred =

[CentOS] Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks

2020-09-24 Thread Amey Abhyankar
Hello, I have a blade server with SAS HDD's of 12TB in total. 3 HDD's of 4TB each. Is it possible to install Cent OS 7.8.2003 on 12TB disk space? I will be installing Cent OS on the bare metal HW. I referred = https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product But slightly confused with the 'maximum file