Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261406AbTKLAqN (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:46:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261476AbTKLAqN (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:46:13 -0500 Received: from zero.aec.at ([193.170.194.10]:1811 "EHLO zero.aec.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261406AbTKLAqK (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:46:10 -0500 To: Bernd Schubert Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2 TB partition support From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 01:45:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Bernd Schubert's message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2003 01:30:37 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/21.2 (i586-suse-linux) References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 19 Bernd Schubert writes: > Are 2TB possible with an unpatched 2.4.x 64bit-AMD64 kernel? The > partion is supposed to be reiserfs. I read an about 2 years old > discussion about this and Hans Reiser statet that the maximum size is > about 2GB. Unfortunality I don't know what this 'about' depends on. > Furthermore our server for this will be an Opteron and so perhaps this > limit is much higher on 64bit systems. In theory yes, but note that nobody tested the drivers for 64bit cleanness in block numbers. I would do careful testing first if your block driver supports >2TB. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/