On Nov 25, 2007 6:55 PM, Sharpe, Sam J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 25 Nov 2007, at 23:48, solarflow99 wrote: > > > On Nov 25, 2007 3:45 PM, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > >> solarflow99 wrote: > >>> On Nov 25, 2007 5:13 AM, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > wrote: > >>>> John Summerfield wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Joe's call, not yours or mine. I'm just offering the choice. If > >>>>> it's not > >>>>> Joe's call, he talks to whomever does make the call, and I would > >>>>> prefer > >>>>> to offer the choice of a supported solution that doesn't work > >>>>> and three > >>>>> unsupported ones that probably will and need some evaluation. > >>>> If Joe wants an easy, supported option, it's SUSE Linux Enterprise > >>>> Server. I've got SLES10 on my laptop, and it includes xfs. > >>>> > >>>> He just has to change vendor;-) > >>> > >>> > >>> What I would do is try going with ext3. He may have to use LVM if > >>> he > >>> wants 1 big slice, but I don't see any other serious disadvantages. > >>> This way he can stick with the latest RHEL and not have to use less > >>> optimal linux distributions for enterprise use. > >> > >> If you read the beginning of the thread, you'd understand that ext3 > >> doesn't do it without some dreadful hackery. > >> > >> the problem is that ext3 filesystems are limited to 2**32 blocks, > >> and OP > >> has more disk space than that. Lots more. > > > > cant LVM be used to make several large ext3 partitions look as one? > > Uh, no. > > You give a partition a filesystem *after* the LVM layer, so you can > LVM lots of 8GB partitions into a bigger LVM volume and logical disk > but you still need to give it a filesystem, which won't be ext3. I > think you need to do a bit of reading ;o)
Thats what I remember too, I thought there was still a way to do it though. Come to think about it now, I might be getting GPT mixed up in this, but I remember others here that have volumes 10TB and more. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
