Re: [Nbd] 10 TByte partition

[Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...>]

Hi,

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 01:27:45AM +0100, sf@...850... wrote:
> 
> Moin!
> 
> The attached patch allows to run a 16TB nbd partition on a 32-bit
> system.

Applied.

Thanks for getting the hairy bits out of that code, too; it looks like
it was a bit buggy.

[...]
> My setup: three old identical dual Xeon servers with six new 2TB SATA
> disks each.  Each server provides a 10TB RAID5.  Via nbd, those three
> 10TB partitions shall form a net RAID5².  Now I am waiting for
> ext2fsprogs to support >16TB filesystems on ext4.  And for the third
> server to join.

You are insane ;-)

(but hey, why not?)

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