11 Jan
2011
11 Jan
'11
11:20 p.m.
On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfalien@gmail.com wrote:
I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS..
I don't know the answer to your parted question, but let me be the first of many to express horror at the idea of using RAID-5 for such a large volume with so many spindles, even with a hot spare. The rebuild times are probably going to be days, and the chance of a second spindle failure in that time is high enough to make it dangerous. Use RAID-6 at least.
Ok RAID 6 it is.
How would any one proceed with partitioning such a large sized volume?
- aurf