From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752464AbZGRGJj (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:09:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751377AbZGRGJf (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:09:35 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:38889 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751144AbZGRGJe (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:09:34 -0400 To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: How to handle >16TB devices on 32 bit hosts ?? From: Andi Kleen References: <19041.4714.686158.130252@notabene.brown> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:09:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: <19041.4714.686158.130252@notabene.brown> (Neil Brown's message of "Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:08:10 +1000") Message-ID: <8763dqwmhu.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Neil Brown 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 -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.