Re: 2 Terabyte File System Size Limitation

["William L. Jones" <jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:37 PM 9/4/00 +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:53:54AM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote:
>
> > So I haven't gone and actually looked at code but given the only way to 
> get to
> > 16TB is through a volume manager, the process or re-mapping requests
> > will bring any individual device under the 2^40 limit but still allow 
> indexing at
> > the ll_rw_block level up to 16TB.
>
> No.  LVMs still get passed 512-byte indexed requests.  A LVM exports a
> block device, and that block device is just as much subject to the 2TB
> limit as the physical block devices underneath it are.  The fact that
> the LVM device is a virtual device, not a physical one, does not make
> a difference, sadly.
>
> Cheers,
>  Stephen
My haed hurts.  Your are right.  Just when I figured out how make a large 
XFS file system.
Bill Jones