Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:58:01 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, mrcpu@internetcds.com, clash@tasam.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB) Message-ID: <20020320195801.GH52241@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200203201928.g2KJSfZ85089@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20020319131556.D99985@backmaster.cdsnet.net> <008901c1cf8c$be5d6f50$090510ac@gleason> <00b401c1cf8d$8960b7c0$090510ac@gleason> <20020319202137.U68606@backmaster.cdsnet.net> <20020320081439.74ca4530.steve@sohara.org> <20020319232049.W75496@nexus.root.com> <20020320190727.1cb65fac.steve@sohara.org> <20020320110647.A96231@nexus.root.com> <200203201928.g2KJSfZ85089@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:28:41AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
=> I don't know if we will ever be able to fix this in -stable, but Kirk is
=> planning on changing block numbers from 32 to 64 bits in -current
=> as part of his UFS64 work. I don't think he's tackled the disklabel
=> issue yet, but I presume that he will.
=>
=> Until then we are effectively limited to 1TB of physical storage per
=> logical drive.
Is this even the case when using >512-byte fragments? In NetBSD, for
example, you are limited to 1 TB filesystems when using 512-byte
fragments, but up to 4 TB if using 2 KB fragments...
Cheers,
Paul.
e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu
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