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Subject: >1 TB RAID servers
From: Daryl Herzmann <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:00:14 -0600 (CST)
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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!? :)

Thanks,
  Daryl


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------- Additional Comments From sandeen@xxxxxxx  2004-25-03 07:43 PDT -------
The linux 2.4 kernel really can't handle > 1T block devices.  You're
probably seeing something wrapping around 32 bits and clobbering the
filesystem.  If you really need > 1T, use 2.6 with CONFIG_LBD enabled.
This is a core kernel I/O path issue, not oan xfs issue.

See http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/IA64wiki/LargeBlockDevices
for more information.

If you can reproduce this with a filesystem < 1T, please re-open.

-Eric



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