From: LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit block sizes on 32-bit systems
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:40:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ABF9B40.6B93ECA2@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009201c0b61e$c83f7550$5517fea9@local>
Manfred Spraul wrote:
>
> >4k page size * 2GB = 8TB.
>
> Try it.
> If your drive (array) is larger than 512byte*4G (4TB) linux will eat
> your data.
---
I have a block device that doesn't use 'sectors'. It
only uses the logical block size (which is currently set for
1K). Seems I could up that to the max blocksize (4k?) and
get 8TB...No?
I don't use the generic block make request (have my
own).
--
L A Walsh | Trust Technology, Core Linux, SGI
law@sgi.com | Voice: (650) 933-5338
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-26 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-26 18:01 64-bit block sizes on 32-bit systems Manfred Spraul
2001-03-26 18:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-03-26 19:40 ` LA Walsh [this message]
2001-03-26 21:53 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-03-26 22:07 ` LA Walsh
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2001-03-27 22:23 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-27 23:56 ` Steve Lord
2001-03-28 8:09 ` Brad Boyer
2001-03-28 14:53 ` Dave Kleikamp
2001-03-27 19:57 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-27 20:20 ` Jan Harkes
2001-03-27 21:55 ` LA Walsh
2001-03-27 19:30 Jesse Pollard
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103270022500.21075-100000@age.cs.columbia.edu>
[not found] ` <3AC0CA9C.3D804361@sgi.com>
2001-03-27 19:00 ` Jan Harkes
2001-03-27 17:22 LA Walsh
2001-03-26 21:27 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-26 22:07 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-27 4:14 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-03-26 19:26 Jesse Pollard
2001-03-26 17:35 LA Walsh
2001-03-26 16:39 LA Walsh
2001-03-26 17:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-03-26 17:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-26 18:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-03-26 18:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-03-26 19:36 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-03-26 23:03 ` AJ Lewis
2001-03-26 19:05 ` Scott Laird
2001-03-26 19:09 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-26 20:31 ` Dan Hollis
2001-03-26 19:20 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-26 20:14 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-03-26 17:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-03-28 8:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
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