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Re: 2 Terabyte File System Size Limitation

To: "Davida, Joe" <Joe_Davida@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2 Terabyte File System Size Limitation
From: "Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:26:14 +0200
Cc: "'linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <09D1E9BD9C30D311919200A0C9DD5C2C02536F87@mcaexc01.msj.maxtor.com>; from Joe_Davida@Maxtor.com on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:18:04AM -0600
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:18:04AM -0600, Davida, Joe wrote:
> Is what Bill Jones is saying correct?
> I am just starting on XFS, and dont
> have enough familiarity with it's
> architecture.

The LVM trick he proposes will not work on current Linux
or Linux/XFS (at least not without changes to LVM). So you
have a 2TB limit. 1TB may be safer due to possible 
driver signedness bugs. 


-Andi

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