2.4 kernel should support 2TB.
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From: linux-xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:linux-xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daryl Herzmann
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:00 AM
To: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: >1 TB RAID servers
Hiya,
I am intrigued by the message below by Eric. I have 4 machines running
with XFS on kernel 2.4 with software-or-hardware RAID arrays well over 1
TB in size. Have I just been lucky that the filesystems have not been
trashed itself yet? Time to hug my backups even tighter!? :)
Thanks,
Daryl
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------- Additional Comments From sandeen@xxxxxxx 2004-25-03 07:43 PDT
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The linux 2.4 kernel really can't handle > 1T block devices. You're
probably seeing something wrapping around 32 bits and clobbering the
filesystem. If you really need > 1T, use 2.6 with CONFIG_LBD enabled.
This is a core kernel I/O path issue, not oan xfs issue.
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