16 TB Disk Arrays and ext3fs woes

[Fischer, Carl]

   I'm running a 16 TB disk array on a PE2950 with a PERC 5/E
(megaraid_sas kernel module 3.09-1).  I expanded a pre-existing 3.5 TB
partition to fill the volume (using LVM and resizefs).  Now, the volume
mounts just fine, but only root can write to it.  Everyone else gets a
"disk full" error.  I don't see any hardware errors in
/var/log/messages.  My suspicion is that the filesystem thinks that the
13.5 additional TB are reserved for root, but I tried adjusting that
parameter with tune2fs and had no luck.  

   Even with 64-bit CentOS installed, fsck.ext3 runs for a long time,
then seg-faults (only the seg-fault shows up in /var/log/messages).
I've compiled and installed the latest e2progs, with the same results.
Not sure if this is a known software issue or some kind of hardware
issue.  

Any suggestions would be appreciated.  I've read online that XFS might
work better for large disk arrays.  Does anyone have experience here?

Thanks,
  Carl

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