On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:00 -0400, Kossey, Robert wrote: > Can you be more specific about the 8TB limit? Is it correct that this > is an 8TB base 2 (8796GB base 10) limit?
Probably it would be useful here and in our documentation to observe and be explicit that we are observing the IEC standard for base 2 and base 10 naming. http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm This is not to imply that our documentation is currently adhering to one or the other (or consistent) but that clarification and consistency would be a good enhancement. So the question is is the limit 8TiB or 8TB? > Does this limit apply to the raw device size or formatted Lustre OST > size? I think it's the raw disk size because this limit is a limit imposed by the ext3 filesystem. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3#Size_limits the limit is indeed 8TiB and not 8TB. > Using RHEL5U1, we have created an OST on a 9.001 TB TiB or TB? Respectively those amount to 9,896,704,161,611.776 and 9,001,000,000,000 bytes. When those are converted to TiB they are are: 9.001 and 8.18636 TiB (respectively) which are both more than 8TiB. > Is this > OST OK to use, or would we have receive an error message if it was not OK? I'm not sure what the consequences of using an OST > 8TiB are to be honest. b.
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