Problems with 4.5 TB disk array (LVM & ext3)

2008-03-26 Thread Jan Schulze
Hi all, I have a disk array with about 4.5 TB and would like to use it as one lar ge logical volume with an ext3 file system. When mounting the logical volume , I get an "Input/Output error: can't read superblock". I'm using SL 4.2 with kernel 2.6 and this is what I did so far: - used parted to c

Re: Problems with 4.5 TB disk array (LVM & ext3)

2008-03-26 Thread Troy Dawson
Jan Schulze wrote: Hi all, I have a disk array with about 4.5 TB and would like to use it as one lar ge logical volume with an ext3 file system. When mounting the logical volume , I get an "Input/Output error: can't read superblock". I'm using SL 4.2 with kernel 2.6 and this is what I did so fa

Re: Problems with 4.5 TB disk array (LVM & ext3)

2008-03-26 Thread Jon Peatfield
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Jan Schulze wrote: Hi all, I have a disk array with about 4.5 TB and would like to use it as one large logical volume with an ext3 file system. When mounting the logical volume , I get an "Input/Output error: can't read superblock". Do you get any interesting kernel mes

Re: Problems with 4.5 TB disk array (LVM & ext3)

2008-03-27 Thread Stephan . Wiesand
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Jon Peatfield wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Jan Schulze wrote: Hi all, I have a disk array with about 4.5 TB and would like to use it as one large logical volume with an ext3 file system. When mounting the logical volume , I get an "Input/Output error: can't read superblo

Re: Problems with 4.5 TB disk array (LVM & ext3)

2008-03-27 Thread Jan Kundrát
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're successfully using devices up to 7 TB with a single XFS filesystem on them, under SL4/5 (but I think we started doing this with 4.3, not 4.2). I have no hope to be able to check (xfs_repair) those should this ever become necessary though - from what I've read it w