create single partition for 3.5 TB

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Saturday 07 July 2007, Fung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I encounter this issue months ago.
>
> I have a PE2900 with 750GB * 6( raid 5 for storage) ( similar to your case)
> I got two more, 160GB * 2 (raid 1)(for OS)
>
>
> My solution is as follow,
> ==================================================
> I use CentOS5.0
> and the 3TB drive use XFS , not ext3.
> ==================================================

While this is indeed a nice howto for deploying a server with XFS. It has 
nothing to do with the op. One could just as easily use ext3 (function wise, 
lets not go into the performance aspects...).

Also worth remembering is that this wont work well on a 32-bit system since 
XFS almost requires >4K kernel stacks and rh uses 4K for 32-bit kernels 
(CONFIG_4KSTACKS=y).

/Peter

> step
> 1) install CentOS on raid 1,  do not create any thing on the raid 5 at this
> point.
>
> 2) enable the CentOSplus repository , and install the XFS patch  for kernel
> and also install the XFS tool
>
> 3) reboot , and configure the raid 5 with XFS.
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