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From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB)
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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.

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