[7455] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Devices limit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Thu Oct 28 15:10:54 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:46:36 +0200
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: Mark Garlanger <garlangr@cyberramp.net>
Cc: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>, irish@n2h2.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 04:24:45AM +0000, Mark Garlanger wrote:
> I couldn't find this reference in the thread... Is this limit for
> performance or will bad things happen if you go over 2GB? I currently ha=
ve
> a couple of partitions at ~4GB and haven't noticed any problems.
There are no problems with using filesystems with 80GB. (Apart from the very
long fsck times, maybe. Use 4k blocks ... or ext3, if you are adventorous.)=
=20
The original poster however used raw device access which the used DB only
supported up to 2 GB each partition.
--=20
Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Wuppertal, FRG
PGP2 key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development
SuSE GmbH, N=FCrnberg, FRG SCSI drivers: tmscsim(DC390), DC395
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