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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Jeff Zheng <Jeff.Zheng@endace.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:04:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070516140452.GC5286@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <659F626D666070439A4A5965CD6EBF406836C6@gazelle.ad.endace.com>

On May 16, 2007  11:09 +1200, Jeff Zheng wrote:
> We are using two 3ware disk array controllers, each of them is connected
> 8 750GB harddrives. And we build a software raid0 on top of that. The
> total capacity is 5.5TB+5.5TB=11TB
> 
> We use jfs as the file-system, we have a test application that write
> data continuously to the disks. After writing 52 10GB files, jfs
> crashed. And we are not able to recover it, fsck doesn't recognise it
> anymore.
> We then tried xfs, same application, lasted a little longer, but gives
> kernel crash later.

Check if your kernel has CONFIG_LBD enabled.

The kernel doesn't check if the block layer can actually write to
a block device > 2TB.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-16 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-15 23:09 Software raid0 will crash the file-system, when each disk is 5TB Jeff Zheng
2007-05-15 23:29 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-05-16  0:03   ` Neil Brown
2007-05-16  1:56     ` Jeff Zheng
2007-05-16 17:28       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-05-16 17:58         ` david
2007-05-17  0:48       ` Neil Brown
2007-05-17  2:09         ` Jeff Zheng
2007-05-17  2:45           ` Neil Brown
2007-05-17  3:11             ` Jeff Zheng
2007-05-17  4:32               ` Neil Brown
2007-05-17  5:08                 ` Jeff Zheng
2007-05-17  4:45             ` david
2007-05-17  5:03               ` Neil Brown
2007-05-17  5:31                 ` Neil Brown
2007-05-17  5:38                   ` Jeff Zheng
2007-05-17 22:55                     ` Jeff Zheng
2007-05-18  0:21                       ` Neil Brown
2007-05-22 21:31                       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-05-16 14:04 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-05-16 18:04   ` david
2007-05-16 18:16     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-16 21:42       ` Jeff Zheng
2007-05-17  7:21         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-17 11:11           ` Neil Brown
2007-05-17 15:30             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-16 21:44     ` Jeff Zheng

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