This is in fact a 120 TB (not GB) filesystem that I am trying to build.
What I am attempting to do is to take 80 1.6 TB arrays ((8 x 250 GB Raid
5 arrays) 10 arrays from 8 seperate SAN's). Use LVM to make one large
volume, then use xfs to format and mount this as a single filesystem.
Any advice - or gotcha's would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 23:40 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> rthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I am attempting to use XFS on a number of RHEL ES 4 servers. I need help.
> > I have downloaded the patch, installed the xfsprogs and was able to use
> > mkfs.xfs to format a partition. When trying to mount the filesystem, it
> > tells me the kernel does not support XFS. I know that I need to recompile
> > the kernel to get this thing working, but I have no idea on how to do
> > this. I am wanting to use XFS to create a 120 TB filesystem (growable up
> > to 300 TB). XFS is my only option if I want a filesystem this large, is
> > this correct? Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Rob Thompson
> >
>
> You could get xfs going on RHEL4 w/o rebuilding the kernel, by just
> building xfs as an external module. I can provide an xfs codebase that
> -should- work if you really want to do this. Standard disclaimers about
> breaking & keeping both pieces apply here.
>
> But I'd suggest that you use something like SLES9, if at all possible,
> because SuSE will actually support your endeavors with xfs.
>
> -Eric
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