Re: ext3 partition problems w/Apple Xserve RAID

[Ionel GARDAIS <ionel gardais tech-advantage com>]

Hi there,

I'm running the same kind of configuration (RHEL ES 4 on a PowerEdge 
2950 with a QLE2460 connected to a SanBox 5200 with 2 XServe RAID 10.5TB).
The four 4.5TB slices are directly formated in ext3, no partitions were 
created.

Should I expect to get some data corruption on power failure ?

Thanks,
Ionel


Jon Forrest wrote:
> Randy Martin wrote:
> > I’m running Red Hat AS 4 on a Dell PowerEdge 1950.  It connects to an 
> > Apple Xserve RAID via a Qlogic QLE2460 card.  I am able to create a 
> > 4TB ext3 partition with no problems and use it fine.  When the system 
> > power drops or it’s rebooted, the file system can’t  be mounted 
> > again.  It looks like the partition table is getting corrupted.  Here 
> > is some of the doc I gathered:
>
> > Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-4292376.000 megabytes
> >
> > Disk label type: msdos
>
> Bingo. That's your problem. You have to use a gpt disk label
> for partitions this large. I had the identical problem
> and I was able to fix it without loosing a single bit.
> I described it in a posting to this group on 3/14/2007.
> (I'll send it to you directly).
>
> Cordially,

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Ionel GARDAIS
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