On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:06:53 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
>
> > 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.
>
> You shouldn't need to use a larger block size even with a 300GB
> filesystem.
>
> I've personally created a 54 gigabyte filesystem at a Linux Kongress a
> few years back, when I hooked up my laptop to a partially populated RAID
> array at the vendor trade show.
>
> (Make sure you turn on the sparse superblocks option if you're using a
> 2.1 kernel, though. At 300GBs, it's really important to turn on the
> sparse superblock option if your kernel can support it, since a lot of
> space is wasted otherwise.)
>
> - Ted
, JimL
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