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re: [patch] - add support for >2TB raid devices



On Oct 22,  2:25pm, mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost (matthew green) wrote:
-- Subject: re: [patch] - add support for >2TB raid devices

| after talking some more with greg oster, i've gone with a suggestion
| from him to not bump the version, since the new field will be zero
| in all existing labels already, so it can be safely always included
| for now.  the only problem we envision is an old kernel seeing a new
| large set and cutting it off.  i can't think of data loss situations
| for this, just access errors (which is what i've seen happen.)
| 
| updated patches (i haven't merged any block/sector macros in yet):
| 
|       http://www.netbsd.org/~mrg/rf-2tb.diff
|       http://www.netbsd.org/~mrg/rf-2tb-netbsd-5.diff
| 

Great! That works for me!

christos


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