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

["nathan r. hruby" <nhruby uga edu>]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> 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?

Err... Don't think you'll be seeing more love from GFS:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_79_6062.shtm

cXFS will take your 100TB of storage as a single FS though :)
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=nt&db=bks&srch=&fname=/SGI_Admin/CXFS_AG/sgi_html/ape.html

As will plain 'ol XFS:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/

-n

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