[DRBD-user] Definitive answer on >4TB DRBD volumes

Maurice Volaski mvolaski at aecom.yu.edu
Tue Dec 2 17:29:38 CET 2008

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


>DRBD+
>   both 32bit and 64bit
>   (we recommend 64bit for large storage anyways).
>	16 TB per device (currently)

And now in 8.3.0rc1...

>* bitmap in unmapped pages = support for devices > 4TByte (was DRBD+)

So does this mean 8.3.0rc1 supports 16 TB? What if we want more than 
that? Is it a hard-coded limit simply because it hasn't been tested 
beyond that or is it known to cause mayhem?
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski at aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University



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