Trying to mount 13 Tb disk on RedHat system.

sigpedag sigpedag at univ-paris1.fr
Fri Aug 14 10:02:57 UTC 2009


Tosh a écrit :
> On 12/08/09 23:12, Margaret Doll wrote:
>> We are trying to use a 13 Tb disk on one of the latest RedHat system;
>> namely, 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen.
>>
>> "ext3" cannot see beyond 2 Tb.
>>
>> We understand that zfs can work with the 13 Tb disk. However, zfs does
>> not come with RedHat. Can it
>> easily be added to a RedHat system. How? We will need complete
>> instructions if this is possible.
>>
>> What are the drawbacks to using ZFS?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
> 
> I would go with XFS, as Redhat will be adding support for XFS in RHEL5.4
> Maximum partition size should be around 8 exibibyte (if I remember well)

Yes, this will avoid the potential 8TiB limit of ext3 on some systems 
but won't resolve the "2TiB" problem.

Nicolas

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