[CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

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