On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 at 11:57am, Seth Mos wrote
> Chuck Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:44:29PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> >
> > If the linux server works well in the proof of concept, it will be a one
> > time, one way move. I had mostly hoped to avoid a dump to tape, mkfs,
> > restore from tape, since tape is really SLOOOOOW and requires a LOT of
> > human intervention for a couple of Tb.
>
> Note that ia32 has a 2TB blockdevice limit in 2.4. And even 1TB in RHEL
> 3, wonky things start happening if it's larger.
> 2.6 can go larger, but only with a 64bit box. eg. alpha, itanium, amd64.
Err, I had not heard anything regarding issues with >1TB and 2.6 on ia32.
AIUI, that should work just fine.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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