On 02:26 Thu 20 Jul , Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jul 19, 2006 16:57 +0400, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 July 2006 16:10, Mark F wrote: > > > I've tried to create a large 5TB file system using both reiserfs and > > > ext3 and both have failed. > > > > you might need to convert the partition table to GPT format for > > supporting 2TB+ partitions. it can be done by the gnu parted tool. > > Or, for that matter, don't use a partition table at all, since this > adds an unhelpful offset to all the filesystem structures and can > hurt performance on RAID where the filesystem is trying to align IO > to RAID stripe boundaries. Well, damn. Too late for that to help me. I've a 700GB that's... rather too full to put on DVDs or my other drives to fix that. There isn't some "safe" way to remove a partition table from a SW RAID array, is there?
--Clay > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Principal Software Engineer > Cluster File Systems, Inc.
