Re: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM.

[Petro <petro@auctionwatch.com>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 01:30:50AM +0100, Anders Widman wrote:
> 2002-02-08 00:47:16, Petro <petro@auctionwatch.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 05:05:27PM -0600, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> >> Why is he brave, it is just a converted 2.4.15-pre5 with a change to the 
> >> version number if I remember correctly that has a filesystem bug when 
> >> you umount during a reboot.  As long as he doesn't reboot and/or umount 
> >> his data is save. :-)
> >    I thought there were more changes than that. 
> >    2.5.x is the development series, not the stable series. 
> Not that the 2.4.x series is very stable anyway, with problems of different sorts (APIC for example)..
    
    And problems with the high memory VM (DAMHIK), and...

    But if the stable series isn't, how is the unstable going to be
    better? 


> //Anders
> >
> >> 		Kirby
> >> 
> >> bzcat patch-2.4.15-to-2.5.0.bz2
> >> 
> >> diff -urN linux-2.4.15/Makefile linux-2.5.0/Makefile
> >> --- linux-2.4.15/Makefile       Thu Nov 22 11:22:58 2001
> >> +++ linux-2.5.0/Makefile        Thu Nov 22 22:23:44 2001
> >> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >>  VERSION = 2
> >> -PATCHLEVEL = 4
> >> -SUBLEVEL = 15
> >> -EXTRAVERSION =-greased-turkey
> >> +PATCHLEVEL = 5
> >> +SUBLEVEL = 0
> >> +EXTRAVERSION =
> >> 
> >>  KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Petro wrote:
> >> >On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:45:03PM -0600, John Moser wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>Is this specific to 2.4.X kernels?  I'm running 2.5.0, and I just noticed
> >> >>that the 160 gig drives I was using are also partitioned at only 128Gigs.
> >> >>
> >> > 
> >> >    No, it's at the IDE driver level. There are patches to get around
> >> >    this that are being considered for the mainstream kernel (Andrei H.
> >> >    I believe). 
> >> >
> >> >    Brave man running 2.5.0, the dot-zero release of a development
> >> >    kernel. 
> >> > 
> >> >
> >> >>-----Original Message-----
> >> >>From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On
> >> >>Behalf Of Andreas Dilger
> >> >>Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:18 PM
> >> >>To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
> >> >>Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>On Feb 07, 2002  22:33 +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> [ Re: IDE 128GB disk limits ]
> >> >>>
> >> >>> now, I've added SCSI-devices that where > 500GiB with ease into LVM,
> >> >>> but here I stumble.  is there some easy solution out there that I've
> >> >>> missed?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1
> >> >>> from 26/11.  patches or anything people want to toss at this will be
> >> >>> highly appreciated.  we have two of these beasts from Maxtor, and
> >> >>> stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that neat.
> >> >>>
> >> >>This is a kernel IDE driver limit.  You need to patch with Andre Hedrik's
> >> >>IDE patches to support IDE devices over this size.
> >> >>
> >> >>Cheers, Andreas
> >> >>--
> >> >>Andreas Dilger
> >> >>http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
> >> >>http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
> >> >>
> >> >>
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