[mythtv-users] Biggest, baddest MythTV

Shawn core at enodev.com
Wed Jun 18 19:14:28 EDT 2003


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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