Re:2TB+ fs ext3 (was fsck out of memory)

[Stephan van Hienen <raid@a2000.nu>]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> Ugh, that stuff is ancient.
>
> Peter Chubb has a backport of his (very thorough) 2.5 patch to support
> large block devices on 32-bit platforms, against much newer kernels
> (e.g. 2.4.20) than Ben's stuff.  His site seems to be down, but you
> should be able to get it from somewhere under
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~peterc/
correct link : http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/patches-index.html
(but down)

i used this patch, but i got this comment :

> Well, that's the most likely candidate, because it's the least tested
> component.  Are you using Ben LaHaise's LBD fixes for the md devices?
> Without those, md and lvm are not LBD-safe.

makes me wonder if i need another patch besides the 'Peter Chubb patch'
when using md raid ?

> I haven't used Peter's patch, but a similar patch, developed
> independently, definitely allows ext3 filesystems of up to 8TB in size
> to work fine on x86, under 2.4.

look at my other posts, i can't create/work with a 2348 Gigabyte /dev/md0