Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:32:34 +0100 (CET) | From | Stephan van Hienen <> | Subject | Re:2TB+ fs ext3 (was fsck out of memory) |
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Ugh, that stuff is ancient. > > Peter Chubb has a backport of his (very thorough) 2.5 patch to support > large block devices on 32-bit platforms, against much newer kernels > (e.g. 2.4.20) than Ben's stuff. His site seems to be down, but you > should be able to get it from somewhere under > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~peterc/ correct link : http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/patches-index.html (but down)
i used this patch, but i got this comment :
> Well, that's the most likely candidate, because it's the least tested > component. Are you using Ben LaHaise's LBD fixes for the md devices? > Without those, md and lvm are not LBD-safe.
makes me wonder if i need another patch besides the 'Peter Chubb patch' when using md raid ?
> I haven't used Peter's patch, but a similar patch, developed > independently, definitely allows ext3 filesystems of up to 8TB in size > to work fine on x86, under 2.4.
look at my other posts, i can't create/work with a 2348 Gigabyte /dev/md0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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