Bryan J. Smith wrote:
HaraldFinnås spamcatcher@lantrix.no wrote:
I really hope someone has a clue on this one.... :) I've got a 2.2TB array mounted on a 3ware 9500 controller. I installed it last week ensuring that LBA was enabled and using gpt with parted to get the full size available on one array.
Just because you can slice (partition) an array doesn't mean the filesystem will format and/or be usable.
I also think I chose reiserfs for the array.
I would very much recommend against that on any Fedora-based distro. ReiserFS support is not tested or guaranteed.
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Er, um, there are a _lot_ of considerations beyond 1TiB (1.1TB) that _must_ be considered when you build a kernel with various filesystem support. There's a reason why you should stick with the distro's kernels (regardless of distro).
Any reason you must have ReiserFS? And if so, I'd consider SuSE instead. Of course, some things don't work on SuSE-based/ReiserFS as they do on Fedora-based/Ext3, such as NFS.
Roger that last observation :-). I have been having problems w/ ReiserFS & NFS (twixt a SuSE 9.2 box & some SGI's) for a few weeks now, though they *might* be calming down a bit (after some apparently prescient recommendations from TheBS :-) ) ....