On Jul 19, 2006 16:57 +0400, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: > On Wednesday 19 July 2006 16:10, Mark F wrote: > > I've tried to create a large 5TB file system using both reiserfs and > > ext3 and both have failed. > > you might need to convert the partition table to GPT format for > supporting 2TB+ partitions. it can be done by the gnu parted tool. Or, for that matter, don't use a partition table at all, since this adds an unhelpful offset to all the filesystem structures and can hurt performance on RAID where the filesystem is trying to align IO to RAID stripe boundaries. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
