That's not quite true. Resources required to manage file system (file table + optionally journals) depend not only on the partition size but on number of files and cluster size also.
E.g.: my Windows 750 GB drive has 792MB used for MFT because of thousands of small files but my 8TB drive uses...
Looks like there's partition size limit (http://event.asus.com/2009/networks/disksupport/) But it worked with an older firmware somehow :)
What should be done to include support for large disks? Do I need to post a feature request at ASUS forum?
Not sure it's related to this issue but it could be overflow bug: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2014-October/048512.html
Can anybody close to *nix development check this out?
Other users have similar problems:
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/release-asuswrt-merlin-380-65-is-now-available.37295/page-21#post-311852
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/100-cpu-after-update-firmware.40404/
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/usb-hard-drive-and-87u.29696/
And Jarp has...
Hi.
I've used firmware 380.57 for the last year and yesterday upgraded it to the latest release 380.67.
Now I cannot use my 8TB HDD connected to USB3 port via SMB. Router hangs when I try to access SMB share. One for the CPUs is constantly 100% busty and system log is full with the errors like...