I did it again...
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:22:49 GMT, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> said:
> Arg --- typo in my reply. I _meant_ to write "The block device layer
> has a hard upper limit of 2GB. It doesn't matter which block device you
^^^ 2TB, obviously!
> use." The point still stands: just using an LVM or MD device does
> nothing to increase the maximum size of a block device, because all you
> end up doing is creating another virtual block device. If I have a RAID
> cabinet pretending to be a single big SCSI device, then LVM cannot
> possibly increase the upper limit on that device's size.
--Stephen
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