Re: raid50 and 9TB volumes

[Raz <raziebe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave hello.
What is the curret status of this problem ? If you recall , xfs in 32bit
over 10 TB md device ( raid50 in this case) sees only 8TB ( and no more).
The disks I am using are 750GB hitachi.
kernel is 2.6.17.

thank you
raz


On 8/7/07, Raz <raziebe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/24/07, David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:09:03AM +0300, Raz wrote:
> > > My QA to re-installed the system. same kernel, different results. now,
> > > /proc/paritions
> > > reports :
> > >   9     1 5114281984 md1
> > >   9     2 5128001536 md2
> > >   9     3 10242281472 md3
> > >
> > > blockdev --getsize64 /dev/md3
> > > 10488096227328
> > >
> > > but xfs keeps on crashing. when formatting it ot 6.3 TB we're OK. when
> > > letting xfs's mkfs choose the
> >
> > So at 6.3TB everything is ok. At what point does it start having
> > problems? 6.4TB, 6.8TB, 8TB, 9TB?
> over 8 TB. we checked several times. in 8.5 it crashes.
> > I know Neil pointed out that you shouldn't have 10TB but closer to
> > 7TB - is this true?
> the drives are of 750 GB each.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dave.
> > --
> > Dave Chinner
> > Principal Engineer
> > SGI Australian Software Group
> >
>
>
> --
> Raz
>


-- 
Raz