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

["Kirby C. Bohling" <kbohling@birddog.com>]

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. :-)

		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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