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Re: >1 TB RAID servers

To: Christian Guggenberger <christian.guggenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: >1 TB RAID servers
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:39:51 +0000
Cc: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx>, Daryl Herzmann <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1080250482.1563.8.camel@bonnie79>; from christian.guggenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:34:42PM +0100
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:34:42PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> > 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?

No idea, I'm only doing 2.6 scsi work.  In general I wouldn't recommend
using 2.4 for > 1TB ever.


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