On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:54:50PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > There are regular reports of xfs_repair failing on 32bit, > > even on volumes far smaller than 16TB. > > But is that due to the 32 bit system directly, or to the fact XFS > requires a huge amount of memory for fsck or repair? As mentioned earlier here 16TB is the absolute limit on 32bit right now. Failures on smaller systems are due to memory use, and this can be mitigated using more swap. And once we commit Barry's patches to optimize the memory usage the memory requirement will go down massively. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
