I think the box initially had suse or mdk installed which
is
the main reason for using reiserfs.
And I can understand that for your _existing_ volumes/filesystems. But for anything _new_, stick with the distro's kernel and its filesystem support.
I see your point, but the reason for choosing reiser was trying to be consistent. I figured it might create ever bigger problems (from an admin point of view, not the os) to mix the filsystems.
But IMHO, this seems like a kernel / partition type issue, not a filesystem issue..? Or maybe I'm reading the output from dmesg incorrectly?
Yes, which is why multi-terabyte support is always an open question I don't like to leave to chance.
Good to know that all the other disks are larger than 1.6TB too then. ;)
Regards, Harald