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Re: Tera-Byte+ fileservers

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Tera-Byte+ fileservers
From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:56:55 -0400
Cc: pac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: SmithConcepts, Inc.
References: <200108241722.f7OHMXW02913@jen.americas.sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Steve Lord wrote:
> Remember that the current limit on a block device is 2Tbytes,
> so the only way to get into this sort of size on linux is with
> multiple filesystems.

Which is PC BIOS limitation as well (not that it is an issue in
Linux).  There is also an ATA limit of 133GB on all but the latest
drives.  Many "trick BIOS" ATA cards fail to overcome this limit.

-- TheBS

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Bryan "TheBS" Smith   mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx    chat:thebs413
Engineer  AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc.  http://www.linux-wlan.org
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