Filesystem/filesize limits (dealing with larger than 8TB filesystems)

["Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge gmail com>]

We have a couple of systems that are in the design phase at the
moment. The boxes are 64 bit boxes with initially 100 TB hooked to
them. Looking at the RHEL limits webpage:

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/limits/

the supported ext3 is limited to 8TB. From the release notes, I do not
see any increase since U1 on this.. but it could have been missed. I
am guessing that GFS is the preferred solution on this? Anyone had to
deal with this already?

[Yes this is a TAM question... but our designated TAM contact is out
for a while :)]

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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator