Re: raid50 and 9TB volumes

David Chinner
2007-07-24T01:01:22Z

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:09:03AM +0300, Raz wrote:
> My QA to re-installed the system. same kernel, different results. now,
> /proc/paritions
> reports :
> 9 1 5114281984 md1
> 9 2 5128001536 md2
> 9 3 10242281472 md3
>
> blockdev --getsize64 /dev/md3
> 10488096227328
>
> but xfs keeps on crashing. when formatting it ot 6.3 TB we're OK. when
> letting xfs's mkfs choose the

So at 6.3TB everything is ok. At what point does it start having
problems? 6.4TB, 6.8TB, 8TB, 9TB?

I know Neil pointed out that you shouldn't have 10TB but closer to
7TB - is this true?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group