Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 09:01:35 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: john@starfire.mn.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4Gb and larger drives? Message-ID: <199603012231.JAA03774@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199603011750.LAA24208@starfire.mn.org> from "john@starfire.mn.org" at Mar 1, 96 11:50:15 am
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john@starfire.mn.org stands accused of saying: > > Someone has been trying to tell me that we can't use more than about 2Gb > of a single disk drive. I think that this is false, but I need to make > a purchase recommendation in the next couple of hours, and have no > personal experience to confirm or deny this. I would love to hear > from someone using 4Gb and larger drives, and whether you can have > single slices and filesystems which are 4Gb and larger. TIA! FreeBSD uses a 64-bit type for disk offsets, IIRC, which in conjunction with other limits puts our ceiling at around 4TB last I heard. I have a couple of 4G filesystems on a news server I set up a little while ago, and a 3G filesystem on a workstation at work. > John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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