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 I just found and removed a safety check that made sure gfs_mkfs didn't try to make a filesystem bigger than 2TB (which was useful on 2.4). The check is after the place generating your error, though. WLI's suggestion of getting a strace of the process is a good one. -- Ken Preslan <kpreslan@xxxxxxxxxx>
