Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?

From: Anton Dischner (Anton.Dischner_at_med.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2007 - 09:36:53 CET 

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From: Anton Dischner <Anton.Dischner@med.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:36:53 +0100
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?

Hi Ron.

i have a deja vue here.

Same problems in 1992 with IBM AIX.
There was a fabulous volume manager but you could
not handle filesystems or files > 2 GB.

I hope people like Novell will recognize that we will need
even files > 2 TB very soon.

And in 2022 we will have same discussion with filsystems and files > 2
PB

To be serious: Having your boot partition < 2 TB and data > 2 TB makes
perfect sense.

We do it like this even if we don't have to. And I am a great fan of
"no partitioning without need"

kind regards,

Toni

PS: Yes i know there are filesystems with no practical limit for long
times

> Novell is not supporting this as I would expect, and telling me if I
> want >2TB
> disks, then I need to change my architecture to IA64.
>
> I do not find this acceptable, any one else have comments, or
> suggestions?
>
> Ron
> 

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