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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: aaron@alpete.com
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Maximum block dev size / filesystem size
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:39:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097177960.31547.132.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097180361.491.25.camel@main>

On Iau, 2004-10-07 at 21:19, Aaron Peterson wrote:
> I work for a company with a 15 TB SAN.  All opinions about the
> disadvantages of creating really large filesystems aside, I'm trying to
> find out what is the maximum filesystem size we can allocate on our SAN
> that a linux box (x86) can really use.

For 2.4.x 1Tb (2Tb works for some devices but its a bit variable)

> What I can't seem to find anywhere is whether the 2 TB block device
> limit has improved/grown with 2.6 kernels (on x86 hardware).  Perhaps
> I've looked in the wrong places, but I haven't found anything.

2.6 fixed this problem although it appears not for some specialist
cases. Last time I checked LVM logical volumes over 2Tb were reported
problematic.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-07 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-07 20:19 Aaron Peterson
2004-10-07 19:39 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-10-08 14:13   ` Aaron Peterson
2004-10-11  2:02     ` Nathan Scott

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