multi-terabyte disks

[Noah L. Meyerhans]

Am I correctly interpreting pages such as
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/IA64wiki/LargeBlockDevices in my
understanding that Linux 2.4 can not address the entire capacity of a 3
terabyte disk?  I find this very surprising if it's true.  I would have
expected there to be some demand for such a feature, especially since
multiple-terabyte disk arrays can be found $10k or less these days.

noah



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Re: multi-terabyte disks

[Peter Billson]

Noah,
  The 2.4.x kernels do have a 2Tb limit but that is fixed in = 2.5.40
/ 2.6 kernels.

  You could, of course, partition your 10Tb array into 5 logical drives
to solve the problem with the 2.4.x kernel.

Pete
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Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
 
 Am I correctly interpreting pages such as
 http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/IA64wiki/LargeBlockDevices in my
 understanding that Linux 2.4 can not address the entire capacity of a 3
 terabyte disk?  I find this very surprising if it's true.  I would have
 expected there to be some demand for such a feature, especially since
 multiple-terabyte disk arrays can be found $10k or less these days.
 
 noah
 
   
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Re: multi-terabyte disks

[Noah L. Meyerhans]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 02:09:11PM -0400, Peter Billson wrote:
   You could, of course, partition your 10Tb array into 5 logical drives
 to solve the problem with the 2.4.x kernel.

Yeah, that's what I've resigned myself to doing.  It'll work fine,
really.  I was just surprised that the limitation is still present.

noah



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