 | | | Support for > 2TB FS? | Support for > 2TB FS? 2004-02-25 - By Don MacAskill
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Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2004 00:14, Milan Kerslager wrote:
>
> >What I may expect about large FS? We are doing a lot of manipulation
> >with many large files and we really need > 1TB FS....
> >
> >As this feature is only one considered "not soon supported " there I 'm
> >a litte bit disappointed.
>
>
> Keep waiting. RHEL3 doesn 't even support >1TB. The kernel itself does,
> just don 't use parted to make your partition. A co-worker of mine
> found a bug in the ioctl that parted uses that blocks partitions to
> 1TB. Seems to still exist in kernel 2.6.
>
FWIW, I have RHEL3 boxes right now with 1.5TB partitions, and I 've
filled them to the brim with no data corruption.
Note that I was unable to create a >1TB partition by using md to combine
multiple drives, but when I attached a single logical device via Fibre
Channel that already appeared to be >1TB, I was able to partition (using
fdisk) and format (mkfs -t ext3) just fine.
I 'm happy to provide more info about all the different things I 've tried
if necessary. I 've been fighting this battle for months now, and only
recently got my hands on an external enclosure that does >1TB reliably
for us.
Don
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