From 153ea7def00ed9f47b1e0dcc26e20b8db7f7f369 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Long Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:53:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update that md(4) has been fixed to allow up to 16TB sizes. Thanks to Pawel for working on this. --- en/projects/bigdisk/index.sgml | 15 ++++++--------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/en/projects/bigdisk/index.sgml b/en/projects/bigdisk/index.sgml index 12011c6ba6..9e7e4e1a29 100644 --- a/en/projects/bigdisk/index.sgml +++ b/en/projects/bigdisk/index.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - + %includes; @@ -200,14 +200,11 @@ md - &a.scottl; - 12 Sept 2004 - &status.wip; - A number of sizes and offsets are tracked using the 'unsigned' - data type, so it appears that it cannot comprehend sizes greater - than 2TB with a 512 byte sector size. For the swap-backed module, - the page counter is also stored as a 32-bit quantity which also - might be a limiting factor. + &a.pjd; + 17 Sept 2004 + &status.done; + Swap backed disks can now be created up to 16TB in size on i386. + This corresponds to 2^32*4096.