[mythtv-users] OT: large partitions (was: Biggest, baddest MythTV)

[Chris Petersen]

> Most vendor kernels support LVM, and I /think/ Suse supports Device
> mapper and EVMS under their 2.4. Gentoo is also very respectable.

yeah, but apparently, LVM is getting phased out of later kernels (unless
I'm hearing things wrong from my sysadmin friends).

anyway, as was said, it's a block device limitation, not (just) a
filesystem one, and LVM still creates a block device.

Either way, there is currently much weirdness with >2TB systems and
linux.  Even many of the RAID card manufacturers don't have the cash to
test out stuff like this (we got so fed up with debugging things for
adaptec that they wouldn't, that we stopped using them), so it's pretty
slow-going outside of the "it should in theory" realm.