Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 at 11:00am, Daryl Herzmann wrote
>
>
>>Hiya,
>>
>>I am intrigued by the message below by Eric. I have 4 machines running
>>with XFS on kernel 2.4 with software-or-hardware RAID arrays well over 1
>>TB in size. Have I just been lucky that the filesystems have not been
>>trashed itself yet? Time to hug my backups even tighter!? :)
>
>
> I was going to add to the bug likewise. I've got two machines with dual
> 3ware 7508 cards running hardware RAID5 with software RAID0 stripes across
> the cards. The md stripe ends up just under 2TB. They're currently
> running 2.4.21 + XFS 1.3.
>
> In fact, I know of several folks with arrays limited only by the 2TB
> limit.
>
But maybe you are lucky in using drivers which are clean in
the right places, for example incorrect use of a signed var
can mess this up. Some drivers do not work so well when you go out
beyond 1 Tbyte.
Steve
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