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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2025-07-21 22:00:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2025-07-21 22:00:19 +0200 |
| commit | 893e0605f4dfecda73770b64e953d25c0ad6de0a (patch) | |
| tree | 621131adcf468daec44d2ae0edaae392ba7a719b /faq | |
| parent | b3da337c08c38fe482f80f66260d4d2bc005289c (diff) | |
Diffstat (limited to 'faq')
| -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 fa5105bd..654379a3 100644 --- a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn +++ b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] 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 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. +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. |