How to create a huge file system - 3-4TB?

[Raghu Ni]

Can also use this technique for md device ?

On 11/9/06, Andreas Dilger <adilger at clusterfs.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 09, 2006  12:14 +0530, Raghu Ni wrote:
> > We have a server with about 6x750Gb SATA drives setup on a hardware RAID
> > controller. We created hardware RAID 5 on these 6x750GB HDDs. The
> effective
> > size after RAID 5 implementation is 3.4TB. This server we want to use it
> as
> > a data backup server.
> >
> > Here is the problem we are stuck with, when we use fdisk -l, we can see
> the
> > drive specs and its size as 3.4TB. But when we want to create two
> different
> > partitions of 1.7TB each, then we get the error "out of range" while
> > specifying cylinders.
> >
> > And if we go for one single partition of 3.4TB, mke2fs returns error
> when we
> > format the partition for ext3 file system and after some specific
> duration
> > it exits with a error "Inodes not found... " similar errors.
>
> Don't use a partition at all.  Just make the filesystem directly on the
> whole
> device (e.g. mke2fs /dev/sda).
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Principal Software Engineer
> Cluster File Systems, Inc.
>
>
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