I found 4TB is the fs limit for ext2. You can certainly use ext2 for such a
large filesystem, but I might consider reiserfs depending on your
requirements.
Marco
----- Original Message -----
From: "G. T. Francisco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: large filesystem under Linux
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:52:48AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >
> > Hi, I'm running RedHat 6.2 on an IBM Netfinity 5000 (PII 450+512meg RAM)
I
> > have a RAID controller card on this machine (IBM ServeRAID 3L) and what
> > I'd like to do is make a large filesystem 290+gig on the linux box. Any
> > problems with this? I'm not sure how large you can make a linux
> > filesystem. I have heard in the past that there is a 64gig limit on
ext2
> > filesystems. Is this true?
> >
>
> I don't know anything about RAID and large HD's but out of curiosity
> how long would it take to fsck 290gig?
>
> Cheers,
>
> G-3
>
>
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