On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 12:31:41PM +0100, Stephen Willey wrote: > There was a post a while back asking about 2Tb limits and the consensus > was that with 2.6 you should be able to exceed the 2Tb limit with GFS. > I've been trying several ways to get GFS working including using > software raidtabs and LVM (seperately :) ) and everytime I try to use > mkfs.gfs on a block device larger than 2Tb I get the following: > Command: mkfs.gfs -p lock_dlm -t cluster1:gfs1 -j 8 /dev/md0 > Result: mkfs.gfs: can't determine size of /dev/md0: File too large > (/dev/md0 is obviously something different when using LVM or direct > block device access) > Does anyone have a working GFS filesystem larger than 2Tb (or know how > to make one)? > Without being able to scale past 2Tb, GFS becomes pretty useless for us... > Thanks for any help, Either your utility is not opening the file with O_LARGEFILE or an O_LARGEFILE check has been incorrectly processed by the kernel. Please strace the utility and include the compressed results as a MIME attachment. Remember to compress the results, as most MTA's will reject messages of excessive size, in particular, mine. -- wli
