On Mar 29, 2006 17:38 -0800, Mingming Cao wrote: > Have verified these two patches on a 64 bit machine with 10TB ext3 > filesystem, fsx runs fine for a few hours. Also testes on 32 bit machine > with <8TB ext3. Have you done tests _near_ 8TB with a 32-bit machine, even without these patches? In particular, filling up the filesystem to be close to full so that we really depend on the > 2TB code to work properly? Also, in theory with these patches even a 32-bit machine could run > 8TB, right? There have been sporadic reports of failure for large ext3 filesystems, and some of them say that 32-bit systems fail and 64-bit systems work. There is a kernel bugzilla bug open for this, but it was never really identified what the source of the problem was. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
