Does anyone have experience setting up huge filesystems in Linux? It is of course debatable whether or not having a 5tb+ filesystem is a good idea, however I am tasked with finding the method to make it work.
Details. Server runs RHEL4 and the option of RHEL4 x86_64. The filesystems would be created on externally attached arrays via scsi ultra 320 LSI cards. The card according to LSI will support whatever the array can throw at it, and of course the array itself supports making such a filesystem (in this case 5.3tb). When the array is attached the server, you can fdisk the device and see that the space is available. ################################## Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 5594.5 GB, 5594564001792 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 170041 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 2048 = 32901120 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 182187 1558700888 83 Linux ################################## I am not experience in setting block sizes and what not, so that is my current path. In other words, reasearching that piece of the puzzle. I realize according to some googling that ext3 will not support this size of a filesystem, however RHEL4 doesn't support XFS or JFS from what I can find. I turned to my personal fav Debian to see if I could work with the filesystem since I would have xfs available to me, but fdisk had issues with sectors, and my employer wants to change distros as a last resort. I would be happy to pursue this on my own if I could get a little advice as to what to look for. Googling "huge filesystem lnux" isn't really getting me what I need thus far, so any "more relevant" search terms or info from disk gurus would be appreciated. Thanks, Paul -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
