Re: 2**31-1 blocks question
Stephen Samuel <[email protected]>
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Your core problem, as I see it, is that you're running at the boundary of what ext3 is capable of, in any event. This means that, even if you do manage to get it working you're going to be running into other boundary related conditions (like your first fsck taking longer than an upgrade would have, the inability to expand the filesystem much past it's current size, and god-only knows what else. In other words, if you need to stay with the current version of centos for other reasons, then continue on this path, otherwise, an upgrade is likely to make life easier in the long run. ... and if you can swing an upgrade to 64 bit, you may avoid other side effects of working with a filesystem this large. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Mag Gam <[email protected]> wrote: > Running centos 5.2 on Intel Xeon . > > Any advice? > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Stephen Samuel <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > 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. > >> > -- Stephen Samuel http://www.bcgreen.com Software, like love, 778-861-7641 grows when you give it away _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users