On 9/12/05, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: > As I mentioned, I'm running centos-4, which, as we all know, is based off > RHEL 4. If you go to <http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/features/>, > they explicitly state that they support ext3 FSs up to 8TB. Wow! Odd! RH says 8TB but ext3 FAQ says 4TB. >From my personal testing on CentOS 4.1, you can't go over 4TB without kludging. > I then did a software RAIDO across them, and finally: > > mke2fs -b 4096 -j -m 0 -R stride=1024 -T largefile4 /dev/md0 Joshua, thanks for the reply on this. There's something kludgy about having to do softraid across 2 partitions before formatting. It adds a layer of complexity and reduces reliability. Is that the trick RH recommended to go up to 8TB? -- Francois Caen, RHCE, CCNA SpiderMaker, LLC