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Re: "big" machines running Debian?



On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:10:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/25/2009 04:37 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> Why wouldn't you configure the raid controller to give you a small
>> logical drive (with whatever raid config you want) for the OS, and the
>> larger logical drive for your data (or for LVM for everything except /)?
>
> I think it's because "disk" itself (which is what the boot loader sees) 
> is .gt. 2TB.

Well he is correct in that the raid controller could probably create
multiple volumes from the raid to expose as devices to the OS.  I find
that overly complicated and less flexible though.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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