Using xserve raid with Linux

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Using xserve raid with Linux

I have an Apple Xserve raid that I connected to a Dell PowerEdge 1950 using a QLogic Sanblade QLE2460 card. I currently have 7x750GB drives installed in the raid that yields around 4TB of usable capacity. I am running Red Hat 4 AS and created an ext3 file system. I have unfortunately had two occasions where the file system has gotten corrupted somehow. The file system seems fine until I shutdown cleanly and reboot. After booting, the partition table appears corrupt showing the file system is 4GB put the drive is much smaller. Is there a better file system type that is known to work with the xserve raid? Could this be a driver or kernel issue? Thanks!

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Posted on Jul 20, 2007 8:06 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 20, 2007 9:06 AM in response to RandyMartin

I use Fedora Core 4 with a ReiserFS and have had no problems for the several months it has been in operation. I am running a 2.6.14.3 kernel.

There has historically been a 2TB limit on partitions, but I believe the 2.6.xx kernels no longer have this limitation.

However, I didn't feel like being a pioneer with a filesystem, so used LVM to concatenate a couple of >2TB drives into a larger filesystem that was then formatted as ReiserFS.

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Answer 2

Jul 20, 2007 8:18 AM in response to RandyMartin

Hello RandyMartin and welcome to the Apple boards,

I don't know how many people here are running your set-up, but hopefully someone will chime in with some ideas.

The general clearinghouse for all things Xserve RAID attached to non-Apple machines is: http://alienraid.org/

Good luck,

=Tod

G5/2.0x2, Dual XServes x2, XRAID, beige G3 501Mhz

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