Hi John,
Thanks for this info. Drobo says no ext4:
http://support.drobo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/165/~/how-do-i-use-my-drobo-with-a-linux-machine%3F
I will look up XFS.
Jason
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:50 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/10/2013 9:54 AM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote:
> > # parted
> > GNU Parted 2.1
>
> here's my parted recipe for making very large volumes... this will
> fill the disk, reserving 512K up front to be on a reasonable stripe
> boundary
>
> |parted /dev/sdb ||"mklabel gpt"|
> |parted -a none /dev/sdb ||"mkpart primary 1024s -1s"|
>
> I would under NO conditions make a EXT3 volume anywheres NEAR as big as
> you're talking about. my preference for large volumes is XFS.
>
> VG=vg_$(hostname -s)_data
> vgcreate $VG /dev/sdb1
> lvcreate --size 8T --name lv_data $VG
> mkfs.xfs /dev/$VG/lv_data
> mount /dev/$VG/lv_data /data
>
> if your storage device presents the storage as a block device, then
> there's no 'support' issues I'm aware of for file systems, its just
> sectors as far as the storage device is concerned, the file system is
> strictly up to your OS.
>
>
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