severity 269383 wishlist tag 269383 +wontfix tag 269383 +upstream thanks On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:10:33AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:33:25AM +0100, Alister Winfield wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 01:55, Joshua Kwan wrote: > > > alister.winfield wrote: > > > > LV Size 1.95 TB > > > > > > I was under the impression that 2.4 could only handle <= 1TB sanely, not > > > 2. So probably the support here is iffy. > > > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong... > > > > man vgcreate... > > > > There is also (as > > of Linux 2.4) a kernel limitation of 2TB per block device. > > > > Thats exactly what you get with 512 byte sectors and a 32bit counter. > > (UINT_MAX * 512) = 2TB. > > 2TB is theoretical limit. Most driver doe have signedness/unsignedness > issue, thus I for certain won't support fs-related bug reports with > filesystems in the 1-2TB range.
On the strength of that it seems to be quite a difficult problem at best. I am going to mark it as and wontfix and upstream, and change its priority to whishlist, which seems to be an accurate description of its status. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
