Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

[don fisher]

Stephan Hermann wrote:
> Moins,
> 
> 
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:56:00 +0200
> Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> scsi0 : 3ware 9000 Storage Controller
>>>> 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Found a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller at
>>>> 0xd0140000, IRQ: 16.
>>>> 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 2.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.047,
>>>> Ports: 8.
>>>>  Vendor: 3ware     Model: Logical Disk 00   Rev: 1.00
>>>>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
>> Well, I have identical problem with 3ware storage controller, and it
>> set caps something to 1.6 TB before I got the same output about very
>> big device. I resolved this problem with creating two raids with 1.2
>> TB each.
>>
>> Obviously, it is a very interesting bug and would rock if someone
>> would fix it.
> 
> Hopefully you play all with GPT partition labels and not with msdos
> labels...
> 
> as for msdos labels (which is the default) you won't come over 2TB
> (reading as disk vendor means: 1000bytes == 1KB and not 1024bytes ==
> 1KByte)
> 
> 
> REegards,
> 
> \sh
> 
Oops, my bad. I had assumed when I said file system was xfs that GPT was 
the default. Sorry for the noise. I have been away from this for a 
couple of years.

don

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