Re: raid50 and 9TB volumes

Raz
2007-08-07T09:21:01Z

On 7/24/07, David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> wrote:
> 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?
over 8 TB. we checked several times. in 8.5 it crashes.
> I know Neil pointed out that you shouldn't have 10TB but closer to
> 7TB - is this true?
the drives are of 750 GB each.
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> Principal Engineer
> SGI Australian Software Group
>

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Raz