I am trying to get a 9550SX to support a 1.5TB raid partition. I am unsure whether this is a driver problem, or an ext3 problem (as am getting some other wierdness detecting LUNs), but... fdisk recognizes the disk OK. I make a single extended partition with a single 1.5TB logical partition inside it. I then run mke2fs -j /dev/sdb It gets to writing inode tables, and wants to write 11176 block groups. It gets to 3600 (odd) of 11176 block groups fine, then slows to a complete crawl (2 secs per write), though strace shows it is fine. My suspicious mind says this is 1/3 of the way through the disk, which is 2^31 blocks, i.e. where the block number goes negative in a signed environment. Is there a problem with ext3 supporting more than 2^31 blocks? System: AMD64 2 x Opteron 275 Ubuntu Breezy mke2fs 1.38 Kernel 2.6.12 + 3w9xxx from 2.6.14 or from 3-ware 3-ware 9550SX RAID controller, latest firmware, BIOS RAID-5 1.5 TB single partition disk Alex _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
