The Red Hat documentation for gfs 6.0, page 12, lists the requirements for storage devices, with a 2 TB TOTAL gfs space (see below).
We want to run 2 AMD64 servers with Red Hat Linux with a total of 10 TB data space.
Can we only mount 1 2 TB gfs filesystem? Or can there be several gfs "filesystems", each with whatever that version of Linux supports as the max filesystem size? (16TB under 2.6)
From the docs: --------------- 2.4 Fibre Channel Storage Devices
Table 2-3 shows requirements for Fibre Channel devices that are to be connected to a GFS cluster.
Size 2 TB maximum, for total of all storage connected to a GFS cluster. Linux 2.4 kernels do not support devices larger than 2 TB; therefore the total size of storage available to GFS cannot exceed 2 TB. ---------------
Is anyone out there using > 2 TB gfs on a 64bit system?
Thanks in advance,
Anne Hammond