Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 10:40 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > 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? > No I haven't. The >8TB right now is attached to a 64 bit machine, but we > should able to move it to a 32 bit machine. If you use XFS or JFS as backing fs you can use a holey loop device to simulate it. When I tried this last time JFS worked better for me. XFS doesn't seem to like that many extents as will be created by mkfs.ext2. -Andi - 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
