Changing topics slightly, my company is starting to look at making filesystems larger than 2 TB. In particular, we are looking at using 24 250GB serial ATA drives in a single server which gives us 6 TB of raw disk capacity to play with. We are wondering what 1 and 2 TB limits we need to be aware of. We would be using the box for nearline storage, backups, etc. Does anyone know the max File System sizes for: SuSE 9.0 (2.4 kernel): XFS -- 2 TB (I assume) XFS w/LBD patch -- greater than 2 TB (I assume) XFS w/LBD patch on top of MD -- ?? XFS w/LBD patch on top of LVM -- ?? XFS w/LBD patch on top of DM (w/DM patch) -- ?? NFS exported XFS -- ?? Samba exported XFS -- ?? SuSE 9.0 (2.6 test kernel (includes LBD patch)): XFS -- ?? XFS on top of MD -- ?? XFS on top of DM (assuming DM kernel patches installed) -- ?? NFS exported XFS -- ?? Samba exported XFS -- ?? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 10:20, Tony Vickers wrote:
For Large file systems use XFS from SGI. I have files that are 65 Gig in size.
--Tony
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:41, Nick Katsamas wrote:
Hi,
I have Suse 7.3 with kernel 2.4.19 compiled by my own, and i want to create a 5GB file.
I use the command:
dd if=/dev/zero of=largefile bs=1024k count=5120
and this is the answer that i get:
dd: writing `largefile': File too large 2049+0 records in 2048+0 records out
ls -h
2.0G largefile
I try as root and as normal user.
How can i create this file under Linux?
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