http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=317
sandeen@xxxxxxx changed:
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------- Additional Comments From sandeen@xxxxxxx 2004-22-03 10:04 PDT -------
In general, anything over 1T in the 2.4 kernels is not safe - the core
kernel code is rife with ints holding sector addresses, which will leave you
with corruption over 1T. The XFS code itself is fine, but lots of device
drivers & even core I/O code doesn't cope with large filesystems.
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/IA64wiki/LargeBlockDevices
"In effect under early 2.5 (2.5.x<28) and 2.4 linux, the maximum file system
size is about 1TB."
Other filesystems may appear to work, but depending on their allocation scheme
and error-checking, they may not hit the errors so quickly. XFS allocates
round-robin style around the allocation groups, so you will start hitting
high sectors very quickly.
We really can't support >1T in 2.4; if you need this I'd suggest using 2.6
kernels with CONFIG_LBD enabled.
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