-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Eduardo Silvestre Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:04 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

But... Can i do that just with centos install cd and 3ware drivers? Format the volumes with 8TB/9TB/10TB without problems?

Regards, --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda.

eduardo.silvestre@nfsi.pt Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Van Dolson" rayvd@bludgeon.org To: centos@centos.org Sent: Sexta-feira, 2 de Maio de 2008 21H15m GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

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I think it *theoretically* should work as ext3 should to 16TB. However, we ran into issues with userland tools and such. Possibly related to x86_64 vs i386 stuff, but in the end to avoid continued troubleshooting we just used centosplus + jfs. Works perfectly for our 10TB filesystem.

I'm curious what you store that you need 10TB of linear storage?

I have had 4-6-8TB storage systems, but the storage was always divvied up between different applications.

-Ross

It's almost all Oracle database dump files... one database by itself is 4.5TB! Don't ask me what's in these things... :)

Ray ---------------------- Using Oracle you are better of using "XFS" or "RAW" (raw meaning a drive partitioned with no filesystem). RAW would be better performance wise also. Or using RAW on a fast SAN network will work also. Hope that machine has plenty of RAM!!!

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