Re: 2T for i386 OT

2000-09-04 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 11:36:25PM +0200, Andrea Ferraris wrote: > > I used to think that. Im planning on deploying a 1Tb IDE raid using 3ware > > kit for an ftp site very soon. Its very cheap and its very fast. UDMA > with > > one disk per channel and the controller doing some of the work.

Re: 2T for i386 OT

2000-09-03 Thread Andrea Ferraris
Sorry for the OT, but I'm really interested on the subject. >>>You might be able to do that with hardware IDE raid controllers and >>> the like such as the 3ware 8 port cards, or scsi raid controllers and then run >>> ext3 or reiserfs. > > > > If you're building a 2TB array, you're not gonna do

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread David Gould
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:46:49PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > >You might be able to do that with hardware IDE raid controllers and the like > > >such as the 3ware 8 port cards, or scsi raid controllers and then run ext3 > > >or reiserfs. > > > > If you're building a 2TB array, you're not gonna do

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread Greg Hennessy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricky Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're building a 2TB array, you're not gonna do it with bloody IDE > hardware. (I hope you're joking.) The big problem with IDE is trying to find raid 5 that works with 8 or more disks, raid 5 with 4 disks wastes too much

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread Pedro M. Rodrigues
The latest firmware for the 3ware 5000 family of controllers - Escalade 5.1 - allows for hotswap using standard ide removable drive bays. I was already using ide removable drive bays to reduce downtime in case i needed to do maintenance, but now the worry is gone if it works as they adver

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread brian
> > >such as the 3ware 8 port cards, or scsi raid controllers and then run ext3 > > >or reiserfs. > > If you're building a 2TB array, you're not gonna do it with bloody IDE > > hardware. (I hope you're joking.) On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:46:49PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > I used to think that. Im

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > >You might be able to do that with hardware IDE raid controllers and the like > > >such as the 3ware 8 port cards, or scsi raid controllers and then run ext3 > > >or reiserfs. > > > > If you're building a 2TB array, you're not gonna do it with bloody IDE

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread Stephen Lee
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to think that. Im planning on deploying a 1Tb IDE raid using 3ware kit > for an ftp site very soon. Its very cheap and its very fast. UDMA with > one disk per channel and the controller doing some of the work. > > All it lacks is hot swap. I wonder i

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread Alan Cox
> >You might be able to do that with hardware IDE raid controllers and the like > >such as the 3ware 8 port cards, or scsi raid controllers and then run ext3 > >or reiserfs. > > If you're building a 2TB array, you're not gonna do it with bloody IDE > hardware. (I hope you're joking.) I used to t

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >At 2Tb in a single partition you might well start hitting barriers. I think >there is a 1Tb limit per device somewhere. You also need to ask yourself how >long 2Tb would take to fsck on a power failure. Right now 2.2 doesnt support >journalling over software r

Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > My boss wants to know if linux can handle a 2Terabyte raid > partition. While I've seen various discussions that indicate that > linux *should* be able to handle an ext2 file system that big, has > anyone actually produced one on an i386 arch? I admit that 32 73 gig > disks are a *lot* of b