RE: [PATCH 1/1] staging: hv: Add support for >2 TB LUN in storagedriver.

[Mike Sterling]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 03:22:00PM +0800, Greg KH wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 03:11:09PM -0700, Mike Sterling wrote:
>> If a LUN larger than 2 TB is attached to a Linux VM on Hyper-V, we 
>> currently report a maximum size of 2 TB. This patch resolves the issue in hv_storvsc.
>> Thanks to Robert Scheck <robert.scheck@xxxxxxx> for reporting the issue.
>> 
>> Reported-by: Robert Scheck <robert.scheck@xxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Sterling <mike.sterling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: K.Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Much better, thanks.
>
>Is this something that needs to go to older kernels (3.0, 2.6.32, etc.) as well?

I discussed this with Ky. Given the changes that have taken place with the hv_* code, it's unlikely that this patch would just work with downlevel kernels. I'll need to create separate patches for those kernels.

-Mike
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