Date: Wed, 25 Jan 95 9:38:02 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: alan@picard.isocor.ie (Alan Byrne) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4GByte Barracuda partitions. Message-ID: <9501251638.AA18641@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.950125101737.1209C-100000@picard.isocor.ie> from "Alan Byrne" at Jan 25, 95 10:32:58 am
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> another quickie, I am trying to partition a 4GByte Barracuda disk drive
> (2nd disk), is there a limit on partition size (2GB ??) in FreeBSD.
> Oh, anyone got a disktab entry for this disk (ST15150N)
This should be a limit on a per slice basis, not a per partition; the
problem is that the seek offset is a signed long in many places. The
seek offset has nothing to do with the real offset, although since the
addition of the disklabel values is done in an unsigned long instead
of an off_t ("long long" or "quad_t"), I believe you *will* see a 4G
limit without further kernel work.
Are you sure you meant "partition"? Eventually, someone will need to
be lent a 9G disk to get the off_t changes propagated where they need
to be...
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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