Bug 129202
| Summary: | Can't mount 3 TB partition | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Charles Tran <charles.tran> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Doug Ledford <dledford> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | alan, barryn, coughlan, k.georgiou, petrides, redhat-bugzilla, riel, sct, tburke |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-08-26 19:30:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 113898 | ||
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RHEL3 has a 1Tb/2Tb limit. The 2.6 kernel series raises that limit (to like 16Tb). Can you file a separate bug for the fedora problem please ? That would have bee nice to know.. and should have been documented "somewhere" especially since at the Linux-Expo in San Francisco, everywhere there are presentations telling everyone about file partitions of over 10 TB..in fact a Redhat presentation at the Intel booth is touting 90 TB I think.. and mostly Redhat.. Does that sound like false advertising to you??? I only used FC2 as a test, we only run RHEL3, which begs the question, if the 2.6 kernel in FC2 doesn't work, then how much different will the kernel be in RHEL 4?? Or will the 2.6 kernel be available for RHEL3?? Tim Burke (From Boston Redhat) told me that the size limit will be fixed in U4 (RHAS 2.1 only went to U2)??? Can you confirm ??? https://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/configuration/ has a clear limit for block devices. I think you misunderstood Tim gravely; RHEL 2.1/AS cannot be fixed to go > 2Tb. FC2 should work (and it's the stream going towards RHEL4) so I'd be very interested to hear why it doesn't work, but please separate that into a seprate bugzilla. a bit more clarification on Tim's comment.. ".. the size limitation of ~2TB will be fixed in RHEL3 Update 4.... Update 3 which is due out this month does not address the size issue.." I was surprised that there was going to be an UPdate 4 for RHEL3 since RHAS 2.1 ONLY went to Update 2.. that was what I was trying to say in the last thread..sorry for the confusion.. Thanks for the link to the configuration page.. I see that the filesystem limit is 8TB. The limit on the SATA block device does not apply since the device is "seen" as a single SCSI device from RHEL3.. or currently in my case as 2 SCSI 1.5 TB partitions. ( I have 2 7-drive RAID5 on LUN 0 and LUN 1. Both of these partitions are formated as ext3 and mounted.. with No issues.. Tim is at LW right now so I can't verify what he said/meant but I can guarantee you that RHEL3 will remain to have the 1 / 2 Tb limit. The limit is for block devices, which includes scsi luns but also combined devices via MD raid... In response to comment #4, RHEL 2.1 U5 is in beta right now, along with RHEL 3 U3. We should definitely verify that RHEL4 can handle block devices larger than 2TB. Unfortunately the 2.4 kernel isn't fixable in any safe way. Note that 64 bit kernels should be able to address block devices larger than 2TB, so AMD64, EM64T, IA64 and PPC64 kernels should be able to address your block device. The 8TB filesystem limit is also something that applies to 64 bit systems... What I was saying at LW is that in RHEL3 U4 we are investigating bumping the limit from 1TB to 2TB. (Note this isn't yet a formal commimitment as we haven't sorted out all the issues yet.) We only have the one machine that has this amount of diskspace, but I split the raid5 into 2 1.5TB partitions.. This will suffice for our needs.. Since it doesn't look like the 2.4 kernel will probably not support more than 2Tb then I can consider this issue closed for my purposes.. Thank you gentlemen.. Changing to closed/wontfix. We're intending to up the limit to 2TB on RHEL3, not 3TB. To go above 2TB in a 2.4 kernel would require changes which are far too invasive/risky. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031102 Description of problem: Hardware: Gateway 935s 1.4Ghz with 4GB ram 2 aic-79xxx scsi , one onboard, one external, 3 internal Seagate SCSI 18G drives using onboard controller. 3Com 3c-589 GiG ethernet NIC Promise Vtrak 15100 disk array 15 250GB WD sata drives. The promise uses Busybox Linux and is attached to Gateway via SCSI. Creating a 14 Drive Raid 5 array with 1 Dedicated Hot Spare. Cannot see over 2 Tb of the 3Tb array. Splitting the array into 2 7 drive Raid5 arrays works but it also uses multiple LUNS, I have this also figured out. Per conversation with Promise Technical support a customer has successfully mounted the entire 3.0 TB with Gentoo Linux and the 2.6 kernel using LBD support.. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create 14 drive (250GB)RAID 5 via Promise command line utility initalize drives, enable over 2TB in firmware 2.fdisk the partition 3.Partition is less than 2 TB Actual Results: Partition is less than 2 Tb Expected Results: Partition over 3.0 Tb Additional info: FC2 does not even see the drive in Dmesg