Re: xfsprogs support for > 1TB devices.

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:41:56AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> I don't have access to a big enough Linux system to try it I'm
> afraid, but the IRIX/XFS code is obviously 64 bit clean, so we
> had a good starting point for Linux/XFS - the sorts of problems
> you'll encounter are likely to be issues introduced during the
> port from IRIX (like the above) or existing limitations in the
> Linux block device layer.  So, those issues aside, you shouldn't
> see any problems with XFS >2Tb. ;-)

You can simulate > 1TB block device on linux by using the loopback
device with a holey backing file. Just don't fill it.

-Andi