On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:00:10AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:12:17AM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Roberto C. Sanchez skrev: > > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > > >> What is the physical limit for a diskpartition in kernel 2.6? > > >> > > > I think the kernel has a logical limit. The physical limit is > > > determined by your hardware. > > > > OK then, what is the logical limit? I have disk array with 14x500 GB > > disks with hardware raid 6. That i about 7 TB. Can the kernel handle > > that large filesystem and how do I do? > > > > I don't even think GRUB/Lilo can handle that large of a system. As far > as I know GRUB can only be used on filesystems under 2 TB. I know > nothing about the restraints of the kernel, though. well, there is a large block device support in the linux kernel for devices >2TB, and the filesystems mostly support is (ext2/3: 16TB, xfs 8EB, ...). grub should not be a problem: who needs >2TB for /boot ?
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