Re: Storage Limitations

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:06:53 -0400 (EDT)


Rob Penrose writes:

> I've been experimenting with a ~300GB Fibre channel Raid array and have
> experienced problems beginning with partitions of 10GB or more... I can
> create large partitions with fdisk, but mke2fs appears to suffer from a

You need to use a larger block size. Perhaps mke2fs ought to tell
you to do that when you choose a block size that is too small.
It seems you would need 4 kB blocks.

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