Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 15:24:22 +0200 From: Matias Surdi <matiassurdi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large filesystems help/ideas Message-ID: <g117q7$36g$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <1211379419.2665.2.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> References: <g112mu$f8c$1@ger.gmane.org> <1211379419.2665.2.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be>
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As far as I understand from the following sentence taken from the link you are pointing and the text following it: "...Many systems don't require an MBR or GPT, and even PCs don't require it if booting and inter-operating with other OS's is not required. The next limit that comes in, though, is with the BSD disklabel..." I understand that I could have up to 8 slices of 2 Tb, with partitions (disklabel ones) inside each slice with up to 2Tb. Is that correct? What do you think about using this scheme and then join all them with vinum on a software raid-0 array? Thanks a lot for your time and help. Julien Cigar escribió: > You cannot use fdisk slices/partitions with disks over 2TB. For those > GPT should be used. More info is available from here : > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk > > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:57 +0200, Matias Surdi wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server >> with two hardware raid 5 with for a total storage capacity of about 7Tb. >> >> For the software we are using for backups, the ideal scenario would be >> to have just one "big disk" so that no space problems would appear. >> >> I've tried to install FreeBSD 7 with no success, as it seems... the >> sysinstall tool doesn't support such big slices. >> >> I've read about the "Large Data Storage on FreeBSD" but I'm still confused. >> >> I've also thought on using slices of 1Tb, and join all them using vinum. >> What do you think about this last option? >> >> Thanks a lot for your help. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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