[Lustre-discuss] OSS kernel panic

[Andreas Dilger]

On Dec 08, 2008  20:40 +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> On Thursday 04 December 2008, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > Running with OSTs > 8TB exposes you to filesystem corruption.
> 
> Wouldn't it be an idea then to warn/refuse during mkfs.lustre?

Yes, this should be added.

In the past e2fsprogs would refuse to create > 8TB filesystems,
but this was changed in the upstream e2fsprogs for ext4.  However,
we didn't add an additional restriction back when this was removed
from e2fsprogs.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.