[svlug] Re: Help connecting 60 Gig Raid Array

[Ira Abramov]

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Ben Spade wrote:

> A while ago, we got/made a 60 Gig disk array here. It is one of those
> external devices that look like one huge disk drive, and was originally
> intended to go on a Solaris sparc machine.
> 
> But is is now attached to a virgin SuSE 5.3 system.
> 
> So my question is, how to best use it? Can I create a 60Gig ext2 file
> system? Do I need to partition it smaller - if so, how much smaller?
> 
> If it matters, the scsi controller is an adaptec 2940UW.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated, and will help to promote Linux in the
> corporate environemt.

well, on the repartitioning I can tell you this: more files in the same FS
means risking more info in the case of a bad logical crash (forget
hardware crashes, that's what RAIDs are for). Also, if you backup with
dump like me, you are limited to the size of the backup tape. DDS2 means
partitions should not be bigger than ~4gig etc.


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