From: Christian Iversen <chrivers@iversen-net.dk>
To: Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>,
reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Mark F <mfaine@knology.net>,
Ext3-users@redhat.com
Subject: Re: create very large file system
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:17:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607201317.54566.chrivers@iversen-net.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060720062646.GA6174@schatzie.adilger.int>
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?
--
Regards,
Christian Iversen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-20 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-19 12:10 create very large file system Mark F
2006-07-19 12:57 ` Alexander Zarochentsev
2006-07-19 13:24 ` Mark F
2006-07-20 6:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-07-20 7:11 ` Clay Barnes
2006-07-20 16:46 ` David Masover
2006-07-20 11:17 ` Christian Iversen [this message]
2006-07-20 15:02 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-07-20 16:22 ` Jonathan Briggs
2006-07-20 16:56 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-07-20 17:32 ` David Masover
2006-07-21 15:37 ` Stephen Tweedie
2006-07-21 15:58 ` Mark F
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