RE: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eduardo Silvestre Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:04 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB But... Can i do that just with centos install cd and 3ware drivers

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Brent L. Bates
I believe Florin Andrei had a typo in his message. No other file system will be as reliable as *XFS*. I've had XFS recover from system failures that Ext3 would/could not recover from. If you want dependability, reliability, and also large file systems, only use XFS. You'll find none

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Monty Shinn
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:36:41PM -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Brent L. Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe Florin Andrei had a typo in his message. No other file system will be as reliable as *XFS*. I've had XFS recover from system failures that Ext3 would/could not recover from. If you want dependability,

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Martyn Drake
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Monty Shinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We basically store video image sequences (edited and source) and audio/video files on our servers. We are an editing and broadcast design facility, doing mostly HD work. The files are relatively large, and there are a

RE: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Monty Shinn wrote: Ross, We basically store video image sequences (edited and source) and audio/video files on our servers. We are an editing and broadcast design facility, doing mostly HD work. The files are relatively large, and there are a lot of them. I am trying to max out

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Martyn Drake wrote: Having worked for a large film and television post-production facility in London for just over six years, XFS has been the primary filesystem for all our servers. Much of the data was split across multiple disk servers - each with around 2-3Tb of data. The whole filesystem

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Monty Shinn
Florin Andrei wrote: Martyn Drake wrote: Having worked for a large film and television post-production facility in London for just over six years, XFS has been the primary filesystem for all our servers. Much of the data was split across multiple disk servers - each with around 2-3Tb of data.

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Jim Perrin wrote: Personal experiences may vary. Yup. Do your own tests, involving your particular situation, then draw conclusions. The average may just not apply very well in your case. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: jfs is supposedly excellent if you have a lot of small files like a mail/news server Hm, last time I tested ReiseFS turned out to be the best FS for that situation. But it's been a while, perhaps things have changed a bit. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

RE: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Florin Andrei wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: jfs is supposedly excellent if you have a lot of small files like a mail/news server Hm, last time I tested ReiseFS turned out to be the best FS for that situation. But it's been a while, perhaps things have changed a bit. Yeah, but

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, May 05, 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: jfs is supposedly excellent if you have a lot of small files like a mail/news server Hm, last time I tested ReiseFS turned out to be the best FS for that situation. But it's been a while, perhaps things have changed a bit.

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-04 Thread Eduardo Silvestre
: Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos@centos.org Sent: Sexta-feira, 2 de Maio de 2008 21H15m GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I think it *theoretically

[CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Monty Shinn
Greetings. I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB limit for ext3 filesystems. I looked at the specs for 5 on the upstream vendor's website,

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 2 May 2008 at 2:36pm, Monty Shinn wrote I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB limit for ext3 filesystems. I looked at the specs for 5

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:36:41PM -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB limit for ext3 filesystems.

RE: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:36:41PM -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I think it *theoretically* should work as ext3 should to 16TB. However, we ran into issues with userland tools and such. Possibly related to x86_64 vs i386 stuff, but in the end to avoid continued troubleshooting we just

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:40:21PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I think it *theoretically* should work as ext3 should to 16TB. However, we ran into issues with userland tools and such. Possibly

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Florin Andrei
Monty Shinn wrote: I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB limit for ext3 filesystems. If ext3 isn't an option, has anyone used the