Re: CVS-2.4.22: File system is too large to be mounted on this system

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 12:52, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > However, if you're sure your underlying block device is 32-bit clean,
> > change the INT_MAX's above to UINT_MAX in both places, and you should
> > be good to go.  If you still get the mount error, then your filesystem
> > probably really is too big for the 32-bit kernel to handle (note that
> > the 2T limit is a kernel limitation on blockdevice size, not an xfs
> > limitation).
> >
> Is this kernel limitation also in 2.6.x, or does it support larger
> blockdevice sizes?
> (i.e. when LBD support is enabled?)
> 
> Leon.

2.6 should not limit you this way, and 2.4 should get put back to
2 Tbytes soon.

Steve

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