2**31-1 blocks question

[Mag Gam]

Running centos 5.2 on Intel Xeon .

Any advice?

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Stephen Samuel <samuel at bcgreen.com> wrote:
> It seems to me that Mag is running a somewhat older system. That would
> explain the problems
> with expanding ext3 past 8TB.  Perhaps this would be a good excuse to plan
> an upgrade to the OS, and maybe also the hardware.
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mag Gam wrote:
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Basically, I should avoid creating such a large filesystems.
>>
>> ... on ext3.  Other filesystems can handle this better; ext4 should
>> be quite useable up to 16T, others can go larger still.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
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