Re: How to handle >16TB devices on 32 bit hosts ??

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:48:11AM +0200, Andi Kleen (andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 02:52:13AM -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > If you aren't running a 32-bit system with this config, you shouldn't
> > really care.  For those systems that need to run in this mode they
> > would rather have it work a few percent slower instead of not at all.
> 
> Well, it doesn't work at all anyways due to the fsck problem.

I can imagine several scenarios where 16TB+ raid would be useful
without any filesystems bigger than 2TB.
Or does LVM have problems with 16TB+ devices in 32bit-systems, too?

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Tapani Tarvainen
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