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-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
