[Lustre-discuss] 8TB Lun Limit

[Joe Georger]

Dividing them into raid5 stripes of ever fewer disks.....  8 TB is an
ext3 limit.  Other filesystems such as xfs have a much higher limit.

Joe

Aaron Knister wrote:
> Is the 8TB lun size limit going to be lifted any time soon? Because of  
> this limit I'm only getting 33TB out of 45TB raw using raid5 with  
> terabyte drives. What is everybody else doing for large arrays over 8TB?
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> -Aaron
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