I'm running a server with Centos 3 that I have set up a smbfs share to a Buffalo LinkStation. The LS has 4 drives configured with RAID 5. Each disk has 1 TB capacity, so the resulting drive is approximately 2.7 TB. When doing a df, the result shows 2 TB, and no used blocks. Is there some setting I can change so that Centos sees and uses all 2.7 TB or does Centos 3 not support this? Steve Campbell
On 11/06/2009 09:04 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:> I'm running a server with Centos 3 that I have set up a smbfs share to a > Buffalo LinkStation. The LS has 4 drives configured with RAID 5. Each > disk has 1 TB capacity, so the resulting drive is approximately 2.7 TB. > > When doing a df, the result shows 2 TB, and no used blocks. Is there > some setting I can change so that Centos sees and uses all 2.7 TB or > does Centos 3 not support this? > > Steve Campbell > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >Setting the blocksize did the trick for me. block size = 4096 This goes in the "services" section, not global. i.e.: [xx-01] comment = xx-01 path = /data-store valid users = xx read only = No block size = 4096 Hope this helps. Monty
Steve Campbell wrote:> When doing a df, the result shows 2 TB, and no used blocks. Is there > some setting I can change so that Centos sees and uses all 2.7 TB or > does Centos 3 not support this?You often don't need to be concerned about the amount of space being reported by a network file system, it could be a limitation in the client driver itself. Usually what happens when the client thinks it is full is it just says so via df but still can send data because the file system really isn't full. My NAS cluster actually has an option to "fake" what it reports to clients as how large the volume is for reasons similar to this. What I would suggest is assuming the LS is empty, fill it up and see what happens. nate
2009/11/6 Monty Shinn <montys at videopost.com>:> Setting the blocksize did the trick for me.Not so sure you need to do that, I have a 40TB share over samba that presents itself properly with no additional configuration. Ben
Benjamin Donnachie wrote:> 2009/11/6 Monty Shinn <montys at videopost.com>: >> Setting the blocksize did the trick for me. > > Not so sure you need to do that, I have a 40TB share over samba that > presents itself properly with no additional configuration. > > Ben > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosSome clients need it, mac osx 10.4.x for sure. ms