John Summerfield wrote:
...snip...
> 
> My research doesn't confirm that you _can_ do what you want using ext2 
> or ext3. I will have a better grasp if you answer the questions I asked.
> 

This isn't really answering Miles questions, but I thought it was good 
to know for the conversation, and sorta answers John's. question.

 From RedHat's documentation on the limits of various things
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/

For RHEL 5 (and hense SL 5)

**i386**
Max Filesize (ext3) - 2TB
Max Filesystem Size (ext3) - 8TB

**x86_64**
Max Filesize (ext3) - 2TB
Max Filesystem Size (ext3) - 16TB

Troy
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