2008/6/13 Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jun 13, 2008 06:40 +0200, Timh Bergstr�m wrote: >> 2008/6/13 Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > On Jun 13, 2008 00:16 +0300, Mertol Ozyoney wrote: >> >> >> >> Is there a 2 TB limitation for max OST size ? >> >> Allthough in some cases the partition table of the device could be of >> fat/vfat which can't handle larger partitions than 2TB. I currently >> run gpt partition table from parted and 7.33TB partitions. > > We recommend not using an partition table at all. There is no requirement > for a partition table required for ext3/ldiskfs. Having a partition table > can also have negative performance impact for filesystems on RAID devices. >
So you can tell mkfs.lustre to use a device (22TB /dev/sda in this case) and split is at it sees fit? How do I do that? //T > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > > -- Timh Bergström System Administrator Diino AB - www.diino.com :wq _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
