[mythtv-users] Biggest, baddest MythTV

[Shawn]

I guess that still doesn't solve the 3.5TB device a 15 250GB disk array
would present.

I believe many vendor kernels also support large block devices.

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 18:14, Shawn wrote:
> Most vendor kernels support LVM, and I /think/ Suse supports Device
> mapper and EVMS under their 2.4. Gentoo is also very respectable.
> 
> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 18:03, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> > Thus spake Chris Petersen:
> > > (our current offering is a 4U), in that ext3 only supports 2T
> > > partitions.  If you try to format more than that, it wraps (except in
> > > the debian installer, which gives you a negative number) - turned 2.6T
> > > into 600G.  You'd have to find a different file system (requiring an
> > > unstable kernel) or write a patch for myth to handle multiple save
> > > points. ;)
> > 
> > It's actually not a filesystem limitation, it's a limitation on the size
> > of block devices... any filesystem will fall prey to that limitation.
> > The limitation is removed (with a config option) in the 2.5.x series.
> > There are patches floating around to remove the limitation for 2.4.x,
> > but I think I remember reading in conjunction with one of those patches
> > that there was still a 2tb limit on the md devices... (if you go that
> > route).
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