[CentOS] [OT] Building a new backup server

Sorin Srbu Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se
Mon Nov 4 12:55:35 UTC 2013


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reindl Harald [mailto:h.reindl at thelounge.net]
> Sent: den 4 november 2013 13:48
> To: CentOS mailing list; Sorin Srbu
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Building a new backup server
>
> Am 04.11.2013 13:44, schrieb Sorin Srbu:
> > I've come so far as installing Fedora 19 and having it see all the
> > hard-drives, but it refuses to create any partition bigger than approx.
> > 16 TB with ext4.
>
> this is notting new and Google would tell it easy
> https://www.google.at/search?q=ext4+16TB
>
> https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto
>
> The code to create file systems bigger than 16 TiB is, at the time of 
> writing
> this article, not in any stable release of e2fsprogs. It will be in future 
> releases.

Ah, thanks. I previously read about ext4 and that its max limit was in the 
Exabyte range, but missed the part about the tools...

Let's see if I can't do the custom-thing you link to. Thanks again!
--
//Sorin


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