[CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

Mon May 5 07:48:20 UTC 2008
John <jses27 at gmail.com>

 
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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Eduardo Silvestre
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

But... Can i do that just with centos install cd and 3ware drivers? Format
the volumes with 8TB/9TB/10TB without problems?

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Eduardo Silvestre
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----- 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
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Using Oracle you are better of using "XFS" or "RAW" (raw meaning a drive
partitioned with no filesystem). RAW would be better performance wise also.
Or using RAW on a fast SAN network will work also. Hope that machine has
plenty of RAM!!!

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