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Subject: Re: ext3 and raw devices
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger () clusterfs ! com>
Date: 2002-07-23 16:55:24
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On Jul 23, 2002 13:12 +0000, Ian Leonard wrote:
> The app was behaving badly but the source of the corruption was
> due to the use of a 160Gb Maxtor disk.
>
> However, FYI, the problem still exists. If you write constantly
> to a partition (in this case I just wrote to the partition without
> a filesystem), it will reach about 137GB (from memory), wrap
> and destroy the first partition.
That is because IDE disks have a addressing limit at 137GB. You
need to have "48-bit" support in order to use such a large disk.
> I note from the kernel archive that this problem should be fixed
> in the next release. However 2.4.19-rc1 still does it. I need to
> check further - maybe the fix is in the ac branch.
Either you need to enable the 48-bit option, or it is possible that
this patch is not yet in the kernel. Try the -ac branch - it has
most of the IDE fixes included.
Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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