Lots of people is using >2TB luns labeled loop and using major device. # parted -s /dev/sdd print Disk geometry for /dev/sdd: 0.000-10486938.000 megabytes Disk label type: loop Minor Start End Filesystem Flags 1 0.000 10486938.000 xfs ^^^^ Comments? What causes the occasional corruption? Boot time fsck, dmraid? Volume manager daemons? # parted -s /dev/sdd print Disk geometry for /dev/sdd: 0.000-10486938.000 megabytes Disk label type: loop Minor Start End Filesystem Flags 1 0.000 10486938.000 xfs [root@argus-vnq1 TSDCLI-v2.3.zip]# dmesg | grep sdd sdd : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). SCSI device sdd: 21477249024 512-byte hdwr sectors (10996352 MB) SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back sdd : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). SCSI device sdd: 21477249024 512-byte hdwr sectors (10996352 MB) SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back sdd: unknown partition table Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi8, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 XFS mounting filesystem sdd Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sdd (dev: sdd) Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: sdd (dev: sdd) Regards, ToreL _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs