Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:18:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > There exist some drivers that can only handle 1TB, and others that can handle
> > 1.8 TB, depending on whether the driver uses the last bit of the blocknumber for
> > things it should not use it for.
> >
> > I don't know whether your driver can handle 1TB or 1.8TB.
>
> You mean 1 TB or 2 TB, right?
>
> I guess the 1.8 number came from us testing 1.8 successfully. We didn't
> try 1.9 or 2.0 but there is no reason to think it would not work.
> (actually if negative numbers are used for error-codes, exactly 2 TB
> could give strange problems - but e.g. (2TB - 256 byte) should not have such
> issues). (Note, I don't know that any such problems exist)
>
> --
> Ragnar Kjorstad
> Big Storage
My fuzzy memory stands corrected.
Hans
