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

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Message-ID: <20090719034436.GA27328@musti.tarvainen.info>
Date:	Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:44:36 +0300
From:	Tapani Tarvainen <tapani@...anitarvainen.fi>
To:	device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to handle >16TB devices on 32 bit hosts ??

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:48:11AM +0200, Andi Kleen (andi@...stfloor.org) 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?

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen
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