[KLUG Members] Having a problem configuring a filesystem larger than 2T

[Bruce Smith]

> > I believe ext3 has a limit of 2TB.  Try XFS (or something else).
> > 
> >   - BS
> 
> NO. ext3 has no such limit of 2TB file system.As far as RHEL4.0 there ia no such
> limit.

I'm not familiar with RHEL 4.0.  What version kernel does it have?

The 2.4 kernel DOES have a 2TB limit for ext2/3!

For the 2.6 kernel, the limit depends on the block size. 
(it may also depend on what kernel patches RH applies)

See:  /usr/src/linux*/Documentation/filesystems/ext*.txt

 - BS