Re: Larger than 2TB drive

kevinhandsics wrote:
> I have played around with different firmware/linux builds for the SLUG, but I am struggling to get anything that will work with a "Lacie Biggest Quadra" this is a USB RAID enclosure that takes 4 1TB drives and uses RAID 5 to give a total space of around 2.7TB, it has an option of limiting itself to 2TB which works with the SLUG, but I want to use the full 2.7TB. Has anybody had any success with drives larger than 2TB, and if so how did they do it.

Can you be more specific?  What have you tried, and what is it that fails?

For Debian or SlugOS on the NSLU2 there should be no limitations on disk
size that are any different than the normal Linux limitations.  Unslung
may indeed have limitations, as it is based on a very old kernel.

In terms of filesystems, there are some very practical limitations --
the amount of memory required to create, manage, and repair a typical
filesystem is an issue with the tiny NSLU2 hardware.  Specifically, you
can't exceed about 250GB per partition with the ext2 or ext3 filesystem
without risking trouble; there just isn't enough memory on the device to
do something as simple as run fsck on a partition larger than that.

-Mike (mwester)