10TB filesystem possible on Red Hat 4 EL System?

[Kuba Ober]

On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Jack Murgia wrote:
> A new PE 2950 / MD1000 system was ordered by purchasing with Red Hat 4
> preinstalled. We have run all updates and attempted to create a 10tb array
> with no success.
>
> One of our principals here is determined to put a 10TB ext3 filesystem on
> this array.

Unless you'll have few large files on it, I'd say it's a *bad* choice. An fsck 
may well last a few hours. Can that system be down for several hours when you 
reboot it?

Cheers, Kuba