multi-terabyte disks

2003-10-08 Thread 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

Re: multi-terabyte disks

2003-10-08 Thread 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 -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer

Re: multi-terabyte disks

2003-10-08 Thread 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