Fwd: Trying to mount 13 Tb disk on RedHat system.

[Margaret Doll]

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> From: Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>
> Date: August 12, 2009 5:26:28 PM EDT
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Trying to mount 13 Tb disk on RedHat system.
> Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com 
> >
>
>
> On Aug 12, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Chaim Rieger wrote:
>
>> Margaret Doll wrote:
>>> We are trying to use a 13 Tb disk on one of the latest RedHat  
>>> system;
>>> namely, 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen.
>>>
>>> "ext3" cannot see beyond 2 Tb.
>>>
>>> We understand that zfs can work with the 13 Tb disk.  However, zfs  
>>> does
>>> not come with RedHat.  Can it
>>> easily be added to a RedHat system.  How?  We will need complete
>>> instructions if this is possible.
>>>
>>> What are the drawbacks to using ZFS?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>> one option is to mount via nfs
>>
>> or are you trying to attach direct storage ?
> Direct storage.  We need faster access.

We found an article that GPT kernel support is available by default in  
a Redhat Enterprise kernel.
 From  http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html
we could just

	mklabel gpt
	mkpart primary 0 12999Gb

	quit
	mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1

Will this work?




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