Clay Barnes wrote:
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?
Define "safe". You could probably do it non-destructively with dd, if
you set the block size properly. That doesn't make it safe, though,
you're basically screwed if you lose power.
And even once you do that, I don't think the Reiser4 tools would let you
resize.
Anyway, I haven't tried this myself, as my SW RAID does actually have
multiple partitions, for good reason.
