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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2021-08-17 03:13:45 +0200
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2021-08-17 03:13:45 +0200
commit6cd8db57b686335ad2d3d4c4fd977d30b392de39 (patch)
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parent4e0bdc5b4abbba6ea17bb138aeee786df4941676 (diff)
Be more specific about the disk limitations
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[[!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.