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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Raz <raziebe@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: raid50 and 9TB volumes
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:24:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469B8DB0.7030303@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d96567b0707160657x7b948026w89ef7c0241c41bf3@mail.gmail.com>

Raz wrote:

> Well you are right.  /proc/partitions  says:
>  ....
>     8   241  488384001 sdp1
>     9     1 3404964864 md1
>     9     2 3418684416 md2
>     9     3 6823647232 md3
> 
>  while xfs formats md3 as 9 TB.
>  If i am using LBD , what is the biggest size I can use on i386 ?

With LBD on, you *should* be able to get to 16TB (2^32 * 4096) in
general, assuming that everything in your IO path is clean.  (The 16TB
limit is due to page cache addressing on x86).

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-16 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-16 12:42 raid50 and 9TB volumes Raz
2007-07-16 13:01 ` David Chinner
2007-07-16 13:57   ` Raz
2007-07-16 15:24     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
     [not found]   ` <5d96567b0707160653m5951fac9v5a56bb4c92174d63@mail.gmail.com>
2007-07-16 22:18     ` David Chinner
2007-07-16 23:56       ` Neil Brown
2007-07-17  0:12         ` David Chinner
2007-07-17  0:54           ` Neil Brown
2007-07-17  0:58             ` David Chinner
2007-07-23  6:09               ` Raz
2007-07-24  1:01                 ` David Chinner
2007-08-07  9:20                   ` Raz
2007-09-03 14:24                     ` Raz
2007-09-03 18:55                       ` Christian Kujau
2007-09-04  2:50                         ` Eric Sandeen

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