[TriLUG] huge filesystems

[David W. Aquilina]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:38:20AM -0500, paul wrote:
> Details. Server runs RHEL4 and the option of RHEL4 x86_64.

RHEL4 /should/ be able to handle a filesystem that large, however I'm not sure if it's ever actually been tested. I'd be very interested to know the results.  

> fdisk the device

I am somewhat surprised that fdisk isn't choking on it, then again you haven't tried to actually change anything. If you do need to muck with the partition table, I'd suggest trying parted if fdisk chokes. 

> I realize according to some googling that ext3 will not support this
> size of a filesystem, however RHEL4 doesn't support XFS or JFS from
 
Had you actually tried to put an ext3 filesystem on it with RHEL4? ext3 under RHEL4 can theoretically go up to 8TB. GFS on RHEL4 (when released) should be able to go much higher, as well. 

best regards,
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David Aquilina
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