From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Martin W. Schlining III" <mschlining@datadirectnet.com>
Cc: Linux-SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 64-bit SCSI LUN addressing on Linux
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:11:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050630161124.GA29852@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42C41745.1020302@datadirectnet.com>
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:01:09PM -0400, Martin W. Schlining III wrote:
> Does Linux support 64-bit SCSI LUN addressing? Suppose I have a system
> that can create SCSI LUNs that are greater than 2TB using a block size
> of 512 bytes and can accept 16 byte CDBs, can I use this LUN with a 2.6
> series Linux kernel?
Yes.
> If so, are there any filesystems (ext3, XFS, etc. ) that can use a LUN >
> 2TB?
XFS has been tested heavily with big luns, but the others should work
aswell.
> Would I need any additional tools?
no.
> Would I need a 64-bit platform?
For filesystem sizes < 16TB you can use 32bit platforms, above that you
need a 64bit kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-30 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-30 16:01 64-bit SCSI LUN addressing on Linux Martin W. Schlining III
2005-06-30 16:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-06-30 16:57 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-30 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-30 19:59 ` Bryan Henderson
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