[Lustre-discuss] 8TB Lun Limit

[Aaron Knister]

How is performance with two partitions on one array?

On Nov 26, 2007, at 11:19 AM, David Brown wrote:

>> Is the 8TB lun size limit going to be lifted any time soon? Because  
>> of
>> this limit I'm only getting 33TB out of 45TB raw using raid5 with
>> terabyte drives. What is everybody else doing for large arrays over  
>> 8TB?
>>
>> -Aaron
>
> We also have large >8TB disks we end up partitioning the disks into
> 8TB partitions and then adding them as OST's to the filesystem.
>
> - David Brown

Aaron Knister
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Center for Research on Environment and Water

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