Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
[...] > > We found through trial and error that drbd in our setup only seems > > to allow about 2.6 TB of total space to be configured. drbdsetup > > fails to initialize properly any device that will go over that > > amount of total space configured, although the devices created > > up to that point continue to work fine. > > > > Is this something that is dependent on kernel tuning and the like, > > is it limited by something hardcoded into drbd, or is there perhaps > > some hardware limitation? > > > > If it's simply that drbd can't handle any more, will the problem > > be fixed by upgrading to 0.7 at some point in the future? [...] Yes, 32bit ought to be enough for every one :) Lars already suggested a scheme to use HighMem Pages for the BitMap in the future. -- That we definitely go in, e.g. into drbd-0.7.1 or so. ( We need to implement it first :) -Philipp