[CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.org
Fri May 2 20:53:58 UTC 2008
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:40:21PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > > > 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... :)
>
> Ah, should have figured it was for backup.
>
> 4.5TB, wow, sounds like financial forecasting or geographic survey data...
The latter I'm sure. I work at ESRI :)
Ray
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