[CentOS] mkfs.ext3 on a 9TB volume
Francois Caen
frcaen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 01:41:48 UTC 2005
On 9/11/05, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at 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
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