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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:55:22 -0500
From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Vinum and Volumes Larger Than 2TB
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On 6/27/05, Bri <ao-freebsd@replic.net> wrote:
>  Howdy,
>=20
>  I'm attempting to use Vinum to concat multiple plexes together to make a=
 single 4.5TB volume. I've noticed that once I hit the 2TB mark it seems to=
 fail, it looks like once it hits 2TB the size gets reset to 0. Example bel=
ow,
>=20
> root@shakezula:~# vinum create /etc/vinum0.conf
> 2 drives:
> D partition0            State: up       /dev/da0        A: 0/0 MB
> D partition1            State: up       /dev/da1        A: 0/0 MB
>=20
> 1 volumes:
> V vinum0                State: up       Plexes:       1 Size:       1858 =
GB
>=20
> 1 plexes:
> P vinum0.p0           C State: up       Subdisks:     2 Size:       3906 =
GB
>=20
> 2 subdisks:
> S vinum0.p0.s0          State: up       D: partition0   Size:       1953 =
GB
> S vinum0.p0.s1          State: up       D: partition1   Size:       1953 =
GB
>=20
>=20
>  Now I've seen mentions of people using Vinum on larger partitions and it=
 seems to work ok. Also when I use gvinum it succeeds, however given the st=
ate of the gvinum implementation I'd like to stick with vinum.
>=20
>=20
>  Suggestions/comments anyone?
>=20

What version of FreeBSD are you using? also I seem to remember from my
readings somewhere that there is still a soft limit of 2TB depending
on what and how you do it and that vinum had this problem.