I've had no problems running a ext3 on my drobo. Everything works just as you would expect it. The caveat is that it's a little harder to get volume sizes in excess of 2TB.<br><br>Here's how the drobo typically works:<br>
<br>power on drobo, insert bunch of drives, boom 2tb drive shows up on operating (regardless of actual storage size). This is something that is typical of almost any logical storage device because operating systems don't often deal with drives changing their size on the fly.<br>
<br>If you add in more drives you'll have an additional drive just show up. So, if you've got 3x1TB drives and 1x500GB in your drobo, you'll have 2.5TB of usable space. This will show up as /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 as both being 2TB drives. You can fill either one with 2TB of data, as long as the other doesn't have more than 500GB. Furthermore, you can change on the fly, balance with 1.25TB on each, whatever.<br>
<br>With NTFS and HFS+ you can specify up to a 16TB volume size. You can do the same for EXT3, but it's a little more complicated.<br><br>--Patrick<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:04 PM, G.Pitman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpitman@gmail.com">gpitman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">We do have a guy in house that has been using a Drobo for over a year and is pretty happy.<br>
<br>Is anyone running a Drobo with ext3? My Google searches show it being a bit sketchy/unsupported.<br>
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