From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Iversen Subject: Re: create very large file system Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:17:54 +0200 Message-ID: <200607201317.54566.chrivers@iversen-net.dk> References: <200607191657.38644.zam@namesys.com> <20060720062646.GA6174@schatzie.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20060720062646.GA6174@schatzie.adilger.int> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Alexander Zarochentsev , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Mark F , Ext3-users@redhat.com 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