On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 17:37 -0400, Viktor Hornak wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if someone could advice on how to create an (ext3) > filesystem on a huge disk (by current measures). The disk is actually a > hardware RAID, so it presents itself as /dev/sdb and is about 1.4TB big. > I created one big partition (/dev/sdb1) with fdisk and was trying to > create an ext3 filesystem afterwards (simply running mkfs.ext3 > /dev/sdb1). The problem is that after a while, the "Writing inode > tables: ..." slowed down to a crawl and now it's about 0.8% (!) through > with inode creation and has been running for about 4 hours. It looks > like this is not the way to go. Is ext3 not scaling well for such big > partitions? Should I use a different filesystem? Or should I specify > some switches for mkfs.ext3? Also, maybe this is not how one should go > about it - maybe I need to create several partitions and merge them > somehow (LVM?). you first of all really want to use the U5 (beta) kernel and e2fsprogs, anything prior to that has some issues > 1Tb..
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