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..