From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Eric Weigle <ehw@lanl.gov>
Cc: nalabi@formail.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: qlogic driver , 1Tbyte hard error
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:38:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010920123818.C14526@turbolinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15k3FD-0005E1-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010920095056.A21993@lanl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <20010920095056.A21993@lanl.gov>
On Sep 20, 2001 09:50 -0600, Eric Weigle wrote:
> > The maximum supported file system size under Linux 2.4 is just under 1Tb.
> > The scsi layer gets slightly confused a bit earlier with its printk messages
>
> Is there any particular (that is, technical) reason for this? A few months
> ago I hit this problem while building a RAID system for our group. We wanted
> to do software RAID-0 over three hardware RAID-5 arrays (2 by 375G and one
> 525G) and the kernel (2.4.6) had a hissy fit.
>
> Given the relatively low cost of disk space ($5000/terabyte and on up, see
> http://staff.sdsc.edu/its/terafile/), is this something that will be supported
> in the future?
>
> If you point me in the right direction I'd be willing to look at this issue.
There is a patch to allow 64-bit block devices - Ben LaHaise or Jens Axbow
put it out about 2 months ago. I believe it fixes the SCSI midlayer,
and a limited number of drivers. This is probably a good starting point
(you may need to update the particular SCSI driver you are using).
Cheers, Andreas
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-20 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-20 8:19 qlogic driver , 1Tbyte hard error Kim Yong Il
2001-09-20 12:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 15:50 ` Eric Weigle
2001-09-20 17:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 18:38 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
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