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 at nfsi.pt Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Van Dolson" <rayvd at bludgeon.org> To: centos at 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: > > 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos