Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2005-09-16 05:13:02 -0400 \ David Bernick: > but do you think, gut feeling again, as you know this software better > than i do, that if a host is 64-bit that it will work with devices > that are larger than 4TB (9TB in this case)? Is the main limitation > the fact that the metadata is 128MB? > > Actually, that should have been my question: > > ==> what is the limitation on device size? the metadata? <== first limitation 4TB (well, 3.998TB): size of meta data, right. after you break through this, you will hit other limitations, e.g. those where some ints wrap. since we decided to have the 4TB limit, and this masks the other, later limitations, I just cannot say from the top of my head wether you will hit the next limitation at 4.7, 6, 8, 17, or 16384 TB :-] though, probably I should know. -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schoenbrunner Str. 244, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.