On 10/04/2011 01:03 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
On 10/3/11 5:53 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:
> On 10/04/2011 12:33 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 10/3/11 5:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:11:28PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> I wasn't able to give the VM enough memory to make this succeed.
I've
>>> only got 8G on this laptop. Should I need large amounts of memory to
>>> create these filesystems?
>>>
>>> At 100T it doesn't run out of memory, but the man behind the curtain
>>> starts to show. The underlying qcow2 file grows to several gigs and I
>>> had to kill it. I need to play with the lazy init features of ext4.
>>>
>>> Rich.
>>>
>>
>> Bleah. Care to use xfs? ;)
>
> why we've to use xfs? really? nobody really use large fs on linux? or
> nobody really use rhel? why not the e2fsprogs has too much upstream
> support? with 2-3TB disk the 16TB fs limit is really funny...or not so
> funny:-(
XFS has been proven at this scale on Linux for a very long time, is all.
the why rh do NOT support it in 32 bit? there're still system that
should have to run on 32 bit:-(
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