On Jul 20, 2006 13:17 +0200, Christian Iversen wrote: > On Thursday 20 July 2006 08:26, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > 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. > > Can linux still auto-detect raid volumes if there's no partition table? Hmm, that I'm not sure of - we mostly deal with external RAID devices. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
