From: Joe Georger (jgeorger_at_ll.mit.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2007 - 15:10:55 CET
Message-ID: <47443C6F.6050105@ll.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:10:55 -0500 From: Joe Georger <jgeorger@ll.mit.edu> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: What is up with >2TB luns?
If the *device* he wants to boot from is > 2 TB you cannot use a dos
partition label to create a smaller root partition. If you want to
partition a > 2 TB device you have to use GPT labels, which appear to be
problematic to boot from.
Joe
Anton Dischner wrote:
> 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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