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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: How to handle >16TB devices on 32 bit hosts ??
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:09:33 +0200
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Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> writes:
>
>  With 2TB drives easily available, more people will probably try
>  building arrays this big and we cannot just assume they will only do
>  it on 64bit hosts.

They should -- no 32bit fsck has any chance running on a 16TB volume.

-Andi

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