Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Matt <matt.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> Based on input from everyone here I am thinking of an alternate setup. >> Single small inexpensive 64GB SSD used as /boot, / and swap. Putting >> /vz on software RAID1 array on the two 4TB drives. I can likely just >> zip tie the SSD in the 1u case somewhere since I have no more drive >> bays. Does this seem like a better layout? > > There's a whole different set of issues with drives over 2TB. Not > even sure if everything said earlier is correct for them especially > regarding autodetect: > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_superblock_formats > > Booting from something smaller might have advantages. > Yeah. A question - I've missed this discussion - you *do* have the drives partioned GPT, right? MBR is *not* compatible with > 2TB. mark