[CentOS] raid on large disks?
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Oct 12 16:09:10 UTC 2011
On 10/12/11 8:48 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> What's the right way to set up>2TB partitions for raid1 autoassembly?
> I don't need to boot from this but I'd like it to come up and mount
> automatically at boot.
disks 2TB and up have to be formatted as GPT rather than MBR, so old MBR
tools like fdisk are useless. use parted
I would build a LVM vg with the multi-terabyte volumes, using lvm
mirroring, and then create an XFS lv on the vg .... xfs seems 100%
stable and high performance on centos6
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