[CentOS] CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives

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 ?

-- 
Kind Regards, Markus Falb

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