From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 14:28:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA15048 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 14:28:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA15041 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 14:28:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA03774; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 09:01:36 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603012231.JAA03774@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 4Gb and larger drives? To: john@starfire.mn.org Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 09:01:35 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603011750.LAA24208@starfire.mn.org> from "john@starfire.mn.org" at Mar 1, 96 11:50:15 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[