Re: raid50 and 9TB volumes

Eric Sandeen
2007-07-16T15:41:21Z

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