We still use that old 2.4.19 stuff on volumes that are 1.5T max. Going
to about 1.7T we notice issues for sure, mainly in the properly reported
size. it might show up as 300M, or 1T. 1.5 is the max we've been able to
get away with and not have issues of that nature.
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 15:39, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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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