Trying to mount 13 Tb disk on RedHat system.

[Tosh]

On 12/08/09 23:12, 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.
>

I would go with XFS, as Redhat will be adding support for XFS in RHEL5.4
Maximum partition size should be around 8 exibibyte (if I remember well)

using zfs with fuse is somewhat risky imho

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