Sure, just keep your raid group size at a reasonable level, to avoid double disk failures, and use multiple raid groups.  I had a semi-large volume running RAC for about a year which had 6 groups of 12, so 72 spindles in the volume.   (I certainly wouldn’t use a raid group of 72 though!)

-MC

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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of James Brigman
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:06 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RAID Group Size Limits?

Does anyone on the list have experience with RAID group size limits?

I seek to convert my qty 5 small volumes for Oracle into qty 2 volumes (one big, one little) for oracle and use lots of spindles. In fact, I’d like to just do a big, giant volume on my filer and put everything in qtrees shared/exported.

Anyone out there done this yet? Hit any RAID size limits?

Thx;

JKB