RE: 128G Limit in Reiserfs? Or the Kernel? Or something else?

[Norris, Brent]

> Just FYI, we have lots of ext3 filesystems that are 2TB in 
> size, so I don't think it is an ext3 problem.  What could be 
> happening though is that when you mke2fs the filesystem with 
> your IDE problem it wraps writes over 128GB back to zero and 
> overwrites the superblock so mount doesn't see the ext3 
> superblock anymore.

Great!!! Nice info.  That goes a long way toward explaining why it wouldn't
mount.  It was so weird since mkfs.ext3 didn't error or anything, it just
finished normally, but then nothing would mount the drive.  Thanks again.

Brent
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