Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> 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?
>
Not sure which are supposed to be safe, all you can do is ask around
as to what hardware/software folks are successfully using with 2.4
for filesystems greater than 1Tbyte.
As you can see from Christoph's answer, 2.6 with the large block
device option is the preferred option.
Steve
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