[ENBD] More on 2GB limit...

[Peter T. Breuer]

"A month of sundays ago Kai Chen wrote:"
> You are right: it's a device special file...
> 
> [root@u575 /dev]# ls -al sdo3
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       8, 227 Apr 16  1999 sdo3

Do you really have all those disks ? o is something like the fifteenth!

> Now it's a partition under /dev/sdo, which is a logical volume on my fibre 
> channel box.  /dev/sdo3 is about 8GB.  So how do I export it properly?

There is nothing special you have to do.

> I suppose merging requests (so merge_requests=0 turns it off I guess) is the 
> default then.  Why don't you think it work for me, or why did it create the 
> dead locks I experienced...?  (Sorry if the question seems silly...  I guess 
> I just don't understand the issue here well enough yet.)

I just am choosing conservative options for you, to see if it makes a
difference.

Are you running to localhost?

Peter