On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:26, Steve Lord wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks, Steve.
By the way: which drivers are supposed to be save in 2.4?
Christoph, you're doing some work on the scsi front, could you enlight
us?
cheers.
- Christian
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