[ENBD] 2GB limit...

Peter T. Breuer ptb@it.uc3m.es
Sat, 10 Mar 2001 03:41:18 +0100 (MET)


"A month of sundays ago Kai Chen wrote:"
> Yes, /dev/sdo3 exists.

Good. It should.

> So it is a file then....  Huh....

No it ISN'T. At least I hope not.

> I thought it was a mount point...

?? It's a device special file. Or should be!

Show me it, please.

> Do you happen to know where I can get "large file support" for the kernel?

No .. but you don't need it.

> (BTW, could you please tell me what merge_requests=0 and sync_intvl=1 do?  
> Are they somewhere in the documentation?)

They do what they say they do. I would have thought it was self
evident! Merge_requests means "merge requests". Sync_intvl is the'
interval between syncs, in seconds, or thousands of requests, whichever
is sooner.

Peter