Re: Bug#269383: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686: Problem with devicemapper.

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

severity 269383 wishlist
tag 269383 +wontfix
tag 269383 +upstream
thanks

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:10:33AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:33:25AM +0100, Alister Winfield wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 01:55, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> > > alister.winfield wrote:
> > > >   LV Size                1.95 TB
> > > 
> > > I was under the impression that 2.4 could only handle <= 1TB sanely, not 
> > > 2. So probably the support here is iffy.
> > > 
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong...
> > 
> > man vgcreate...
> > 
> > There is also (as
> >        of Linux 2.4) a kernel limitation of 2TB per block device.
> > 
> > Thats exactly what you get with 512 byte sectors and a 32bit counter.
> > (UINT_MAX * 512) = 2TB.
> 
> 2TB is theoretical limit.  Most driver doe have signedness/unsignedness
> issue, thus I for certain won't support fs-related bug reports with
> filesystems in the 1-2TB range.

On the strength of that it seems to be quite a difficult problem at
best.  I am going to mark it as and wontfix and upstream, and change its
priority to whishlist, which seems to be an accurate description of its
status.

-- 
Horms