Linux and drives > 2 terabytes; questions.

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 09:53:24AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 07:08:04PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
> > 2) For non-boot usage (e.g. external USB drives), I don't think that 2.1
> > TB should be a problem.  I use ReiserFS, which can handle up to a 16 TB
> > partion.  Is that correct?
> 
> I didn't think anyone still used that reiserfs junk.  I don't need my
> filesystem to eat my data on a whim.  Once was enough.

  Ahemmm... https://lwn.net/Articles/521022/

> Posted Oct 25, 2012 0:06 UTC (Thu) by Kioob (subscriber, #56482)
> [Link] Well <<crazy things>> ? Since 8 days, I had 5 servers (over
> ~200) with data corruption on ext4 partitions (over LVM, over Xen
> blockfront/blockback, over DRBD, over LVM). Specialy with partitions
> mounted with defaults,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,data=ordered
> (MySQL InnoDB data).
> 
> I was thinking about a problem with DRBD, then I saw this
> news... so...  I don't know. Is it really the only way to trigger
> that problem ?

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