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Re: XFS on 6TB systems

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Subject: Re: XFS on 6TB systems
From: Federico Sevilla III <jijo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:57:03 +0800
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:38:50PM +0200, Thor Eivind Brantzeg wrote:
> Hi. Ive created 2 6TB partitions on our new SAN Eonstore boxes using
> XFS linux-2.6.12 as the FS.
...
> Its running on a P4 IA32 machine with Linux 2.6.12 kernel with
> Lageblockdevice support.

Please see a recent thread in the archives that discusses a limitation
when it comes to running the XFS userland utilities on a 32-bit
architecture to repair multi-terabyte filesystems due to a per-process
memory limit imposed by the architecture.

Here are some links to help you out:

    http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20050808.092527.0dc40a3e.en.html
    http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20050809.020823.21ffe4a1.en.html

Good luck.

 --> Jijo

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