10TB RAID issues

Justin Piszcz jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com
Thu Aug 3 16:31:10 UTC 2006



On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Maccy wrote:

>
> Folks,
>
> Just got a new 10TB file server with 2 3ware controllers giving me 2 x 5TB 
> arrays.
>
> Have installed FC4 on it but after partitioning with parted I get endless 
> amounts of ext2 fs errors.  I've tried reconfiguring and initialising the 
> arrays using 3ware tools but same result. The drives are all showing good 
> health. fdisk is out due to the 2TB limitation. fsck and tune2fs throw out 
> various inode/system block errors.
>
> I'd really rather not have to roll my own kernels for XFS/ReiserFS support 
> and all my other disks are ext3 - I want to export these arrays to 100+ 
> client systems.
>
> Can anyone recommend a better partitioning tool so I can get error-free ext3 
> filesystems on both arrays?
>
> Many thanks in advance for any advice,
>
> Mac
>
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Yes, use parted or gparted to format and XFS on top of that :)

If you use XFS though, use 2.6.17.7 or later, do not use 2.6.17-2.6.17.6 
(corruption bug).

Justin.




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