[svlug] Help connecting 60 Gig Raid Array

[Marc MERLIN]

On 9 Nov 1998 15:41:14 -0800, Ben Spade <spade at spade.com> wrote:
>
>So my question is, how to best use it? Can I create a 60Gig ext2 file
>system? Do I need to partition it smaller - if so, how much smaller?

The answer is yes you can. As a matter of fact, bigger partitions have
already been created with ext2.
Pitfalls:
- If your partition gets hosed you lose 60G of data
- If you have to fsck, you can go for lunch and come back.

If you  are using  a recent  2.1 kernel,  you should  also enable  the spare
superblock option (to waste less space with superblocks all over your disk)

Marc

PS: Of course, on 32 bit architectures, you're still limited to 2G for files
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