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Re: FileSystem >2 Terabytes

To: Gabor Forgacs <gabor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FileSystem >2 Terabytes
From: Nathan Straz <nstraz@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:12:57 -0600
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:08:52PM +0100, Gabor Forgacs wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 November 2002 05:54 pm, you wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:48:21PM +0100, Gabor Forgacs wrote:
> > > Is it possible to use any filesystem under linux which is bigger than
> > > 2Tbytes. Is there any solution ?
> >
> > There is no problem creating a filesystem larger than 2TB.  The problem
> > in Linux is addressing a block device of that size.  Peter Chubb is
> > working on large block devices for Linux.  It should be easy to find
> > patches for 2.4.x and 2.5.x in the linux-kernel archives.
>
> Thank you for your answer, i just tried to catch patches against 2.4 kernel 
> but wasn't able to find anywhere. Is it the lbd patch?
> Could You help me out in some way?

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/patches/

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