On 9/11/05, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
Having hit a similar issue (big FS, I wanted XFS, but needed to run centos 4), I just went ahead and stuck with ext3. My FS is 5.5TiB -- a software RAID0 across 2 3w-9xxx arrays. I had no issues formatting it and have had no issues in testing or production with it. So, it can be done. Perhaps the bugs you're hitting are in the FC driver layer?
ext3 had a 4TB limit: http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html) which I didn't know when I started this thread.
I found it the hard way, through testing. There are ways to force past that limit (mkpartfs ext2 in parted, then tune2fs -j), but the resulting filesystem is totally unstable.
Joshua, how the heck did you format your 5.5TB in ext3? You 100% sure it's not mounted as ext2?
Francois