[CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

Mon Jun 20 19:41:58 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 6/20/2011 2:32 PM, Markus Falb wrote:
> On 20.6.2011 21:19, Stephen Harris wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:29:50PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>>> On 6/18/2011 8:51 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
>>>> Only if I'm partitioning the disk, surely.  If I just throw the whole
>>>> raw disk into mdadm (sdd, sde, sdf...) then isn't partitioning
>>>> irrelevant?
>>>
>>> So...you were planning on treating the RAID as a raw block device, too,
>>> then? :)  Otherwise, when you go to partition *it*, I think you'll find
>>> that you need to use GPT.
>>
>> LVM; pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate.  What's a partition? :-)
>
> But your filesystem has still to be aligned correctly. Is lvm 4k
> friendly ? Is md ?

And in the scenario of the whole disk as an md member, will that 
auto-assemble at boot time like partitions marked as type FD?

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   Les Mikesell
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