----- "Russell Gillette" <rgillette@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/11/10 7:26 PM, Bodo Thiesen wrote: > > * Eric Sandeen<sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> hat geschrieben: > > > >> > Mag Gam wrote: > >>> >> We need to create very large filesystems. We prefer to have a > >>> >> filesystem which is 12TB but it seems ext3 does not suppor > that. > >> > Most recent ext3 kernelspace and userspace should technically > >> > make it to 16T. > > [...] > > > >> > The downside is you probably can't mount it, because it's > >> > block size> page size on most architectures (like x86 and > x86_64) > > Contradiction? Anyone? > > Eric's comment about not being able to mount referenced altering the > FS > block size to 8k from 4k. Intel Xeon only supports 4k pages. > > He is correct that newer e2fsprogs will allow creation of ext3 > filesystems up to 16T _without_ altering block size, as I frequently > make 10T+ filesystems on RHEL 5.3 and 5.4. > > --russellg > Out of curiosity, how long does it take to fsck a 10TB filesystem? Charles _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
