On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Andre Noll <maan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 00:30, Zdenek Behan wrote:On 01/01/2010 08:57 PM, Michael McLagan wrote: > I'm trying to set up a large array but isn't working. I tried > Googling size limits, etc and came up empty. > > The problem is that with 10 drives (300GB SCSI), the array is coming up > with 500GB of space?!? I did an experiment and when the array size > exceeds 2TB, it fails/wraps? > Just curious, did you compile your kernel with LBD (Large Block Device) support?Jup, missing LBD support would explain what Michael is seeing. That begs the question why md happily creates arrays > 2T on a kernel witout LBD support.. Andre -- The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLQP8gWto1QDEAkw8RAg2oAJ95cG6ZMdEs2tg1pdFBQyQQil8wlQCdHl8W j6jd5RoGXkbEmKV9J/bwae0= =hB9F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
There are two Michael's here, I'm not the one that that had this issue (Mostly because 64 bit systems have always had LBD support natively and I've never used a >500GB single drive or raid on a 32 bit system).
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