From: mjevans1983@gmail.com
To: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Cc: Zdenek Behan <rain@matfyz.cz>,
Michael McLagan <mmclagan@invlogic.com>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Size limitation?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:34:00 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g40gloecsm81fex9s1UYAxe124vaj_firegpg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100103203336.GM21495@skl-net.de>
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On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> wrote:
> On 00:30, Zdenek Behan wrote:
>> On 01/01/2010 08:57 PM, Michael McLagan wrote:
>> > I'm trying to set up a large array but isn't working. I tried
>> > Googling size limits, etc and came up empty.
>> >
>> > The problem is that with 10 drives (300GB SCSI), the array is coming up
>> > with 500GB of space?!? I did an experiment and when the array size
>> > exceeds 2TB, it fails/wraps?
>> >
>> Just curious, did you compile your kernel with LBD (Large Block Device)
>> support?
>
> Jup, missing LBD support would explain what Michael is seeing. That
> begs the question why md happily creates arrays > 2T on a kernel
> witout LBD support..
>
> Andre
> --
> The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe
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There are two Michael's here, I'm not the one that that had this issue (Mostly because 64 bit systems have always had LBD support natively and I've never used a >500GB single drive or raid on a 32 bit system).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-03 23:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-01 19:57 Size limitation? Michael McLagan
2010-01-01 21:28 ` Kristleifur Daðason
2010-01-01 21:31 ` Kristleifur Daðason
2010-01-01 21:32 ` Joe Landman
2010-01-01 21:42 ` Roger Heflin
2010-01-01 23:00 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-01-01 23:30 ` Zdenek Behan
2010-01-02 0:46 ` Michael Evans
2010-01-03 20:33 ` Andre Noll
2010-01-03 23:33 ` mjevans1983
2010-01-03 23:34 ` mjevans1983 [this message]
2010-01-04 0:29 ` John Robinson
2010-01-03 23:34 ` mjevans1983
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