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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2021-08-17 03:13:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2021-08-17 03:13:45 +0200 |
| commit | 6cd8db57b686335ad2d3d4c4fd977d30b392de39 (patch) | |
| tree | 27d602e6104cd321883aa0bf5e4b01d3e1f48336 | |
| parent | 4e0bdc5b4abbba6ea17bb138aeee786df4941676 (diff) | |
Be more specific about the disk limitations
| -rw-r--r-- | faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn index 68325cff..fa5105bd 100644 --- a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn +++ b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Is there still a 2 GiB ext2fs disk partition limit?"]] -The 2 GiB limit has been removed. +The 2 GiB ext2fs limit has been removed. IDE disk drivers however currently do not support more than 2^28 sectors, i.e. 128GiB. -The AHCI disk driver supports up to 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB. +The gnumach AHCI disk driver supports up to 2^48 sectors, i.e. 128PiB, but the device interface supports only 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB. You can have a bigger disk, you just should not put disk partitions beyond these limits for the drivers to be able to read from them. |