On Nov 25, 2007 3:45 PM, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > solarflow99 wrote: > > On Nov 25, 2007 5:13 AM, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> John Summerfield wrote: > >> > >>> Joe's call, not yours or mine. I'm just offering the choice. If it's not > >>> Joe's call, he talks to whomever does make the call, and I would prefer > >>> to offer the choice of a supported solution that doesn't work and three > >>> unsupported ones that probably will and need some evaluation. > >> If Joe wants an easy, supported option, it's SUSE Linux Enterprise > >> Server. I've got SLES10 on my laptop, and it includes xfs. > >> > >> He just has to change vendor;-) > > > > > > What I would do is try going with ext3. He may have to use LVM if he > > wants 1 big slice, but I don't see any other serious disadvantages. > > This way he can stick with the latest RHEL and not have to use less > > optimal linux distributions for enterprise use. > > If you read the beginning of the thread, you'd understand that ext3 > doesn't do it without some dreadful hackery. > > the problem is that ext3 filesystems are limited to 2**32 blocks, and OP > has more disk space than that. Lots more.
cant LVM be used to make several large ext3 partitions look as one? _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
