From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Chris Murphy

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Weiner, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Chris Murphy
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Weiner, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Because I believe that I built the 15Tb filesystem for ext3 using 8K 
>>> blocks when I set this up several years back
>
>> What platform was it created on and has been used on until now?
>
> CentOS 5.10 and yes, it was in use earlier in the day :(

It's probably a 4K blocksize if this was created on x86 (including x86_64). I'm 
not sure what the cutoff was for 1K blocksizes and ext3, I've definitely seen 
1K blocksizes used for 250MB boot volumes from that epoch. But 1K blocksize for 
15TB? Anyway that's pretty incredible to have a 15TB ext3 file system running 
on CentOS 5. I didn't know that was even possible. That size filesystem in that 
era was definitely XFS territory.

>
>> At least XFS, ext4, and Btrfs right now can't mount file systems with blocks 
>> larger than the pagesize, and on x86 Linux pagesize is 4K.
>
> I thought 16Tb was the max ext3 that could be handled

The size of the filesystem is not what I'm talking about. An 8K blocksize is 
valid for filesystem creation but invalid for mounting on
x86 32 or 64 bit. So if you're doing all of this on x86, it's not an 8KB 
blocksize. It's 4K or less.

But then the eftools complain and don’t work properly, example

[root@raos_apps01 ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
mke2fs: Filesystem too large.  No more than 2**31-1 blocks
         (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.

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