Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 04:07:01PM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Philipp Reisner wrote: > > >There are several Limits involved: > > >1. The 32bit overrun in DRBD's size determination code. > >2. The limit in the kernel's vm - space. Limiting the memory for the > >bitmaps. > >3. Current meta-data layout allows 3.8TB per device. > > >(1) will be fixed rather soon. > > ACK. Allowing overruns (=> wrong data, unpredictable side effects, > crash) is IMHO a bug. According to usual classification systems, a bug > causing data damage or crash has severity critical. this is fixed now. I just did some configure tests including Philipps recent patches, and yes, no problem anymore to configure (almost) 4TB: | drbd: initialised. Version: 0.7.3 (api:76/proto:74) | drbd: SVN Revision: 1530M build by lge at linux, 2004-09-04 00:33:21 | drbd: registered as block device major 147 | drbd0: Creating state block | drbd0: resync bitmap: bits=1040187392 words=32505856 | drbd0: size = 3968 GB (4160749568 KB) Lars Ellenberg