[CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.comMon Jun 20 18:56:36 UTC 2011
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On 6/20/2011 1:34 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On 6/18/2011 8:00 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: >> >> I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work in this scenario; > > I've tried 3 TB disks on a 32-bit CentOS 5 box, plugged into generic > Intel PIIX on-board SATA ports. It seemed to work fine. > > I only did it to see if it would work, so I currently have no systems > deployed like that. Everything using 3 TB disks in production right now > does so via a 3ware RAID controller. The big gotcha there is that only > their newest controllers (9700 series) support 3 TB disks. If they are 4k sector devices you need to be sure the partitions are aligned correctly or you will have a huge hit in write performance (although everything will still appear to be working). I don't think the tools in 5.x know how to do this automatically yet. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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