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diff --git a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn index 210d8afb..654379a3 100644 --- a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn +++ b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn @@ -13,8 +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. +IDE disk drivers (`hd*`) 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 (`sd*`) and rumpkernel drivers (`wd*`) support 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. |