On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 at 12:05pm, Chris Mauritz wrote > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > >The one gotcha in this setup (other than not being able to boot from the > >big RAID5 arrays, since each is >2TiB) is that the version of mdadm > >shipped with RHEL4 does not support array members bigger than 2TiB. I had > >to upgrade to an upstream release to get that support. > > > > I would be interested in hearing the details on that. I ended up > hunting down all the mdadm stuff and recompiling everything from SRPMs. Which part -- the booting or the mdadm 2TiB support? The former I've talked about on this list before. There's not much to say on the latter. mdadm-1.6.0-2 (still current in RHEL4, AFAIK) says "Cannot get size of /dev/sda4: File too large", e.g., when an array member is > 2TiB. I downloaded mdadm-1.11.0.tgz from <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/> (which was current at the time), did 'rpmbuild -tb' on it, and installed the resulting RPM, which worked. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University