On Jul 30, 2007 09:38 +0200, Ionel GARDAIS wrote: > I'm running the same kind of configuration (RHEL ES 4 on a PowerEdge > 2950 with a QLE2460 connected to a SanBox 5200 with 2 XServe RAID 10.5TB). > The four 4.5TB slices are directly formated in ext3, no partitions were > created. > > Should I expect to get some data corruption on power failure ? No, that's only if you have a DOS partition. We have lots of > 4TB ext3 filesystems w/o problem. > Jon Forrest wrote: > >Randy Martin wrote: > >>I’m running Red Hat AS 4 on a Dell PowerEdge 1950. It connects to an > >>Apple Xserve RAID via a Qlogic QLE2460 card. I am able to create a > >>4TB ext3 partition with no problems and use it fine. When the system > >>power drops or it’s rebooted, the file system can’t be mounted > >>again. It looks like the partition table is getting corrupted. Here > >>is some of the doc I gathered: > > > >>Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-4292376.000 megabytes > >> > >>Disk label type: msdos > > > >Bingo. That's your problem. You have to use a gpt disk label > >for partitions this large. I had the identical problem > >and I was able to fix it without loosing a single bit. > >I described it in a posting to this group on 3/14/2007. > >(I'll send it to you directly). > > > >Cordially, > > -- > Ionel GARDAIS > System-Network Engineer > > _______________________________________________ > Ext3-users mailing list > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
