Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Schubert <> | Subject | Re: 2 TB partition support | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:14:26 +0100 |
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> On unpatched 2.4, the limit (depending on your driver) for a single > block device is either 2TB-1k or 1TB - 512b. > > The 2.4 kernel keeps the block device sizes in an unsigned int, in 1k > units, so the maximum size is (2^32-1)*1k. > > I forget which subsystem does it,but one of them tries to keep the > capacity of a disc in an unsigned int in 512byte units; if you're using > that subsystem, the macimum size you can use is (2^31-1)*512b >
Hello Peter,
thanks for your help. Which driver doest this 2TB or 1TB-maximum blocksize size depend on? If we could get 2TB-1k, it would be great, since our raid will be 2.1TB and we plan to hardware-split it into 300MB+1800MB (hardware ide/scsi-system).
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