Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:41:06 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: john <john@1100tech.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS2 and FreeBSD???s apparent 2 terabyte logical volume limit Message-ID: <20050912184106.GB24946@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050912175737.37927.qmail@ubermail.jupiterhosting.com> References: <20050912175737.37927.qmail@ubermail.jupiterhosting.com>
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--yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:57:37AM -0700, john wrote: > Good afternoon > I seem to have run into a problem with UFS2/gvinum/FreeBSD=20 > 5.4/various disk utilities ??? try as I might I can???t create anything= =20 > larger than 2 terabytes.=20 >=20 > I think I must be missing something, because I have a hard time believing= =20 > FreeBSD still has this limit after going through and fixing the 1 terabyt= e=20 > limit with UFS1. Large disks are getting very cheap putting 2 TB in a lo= t=20 > of people???s hands, so if this hasn???t been fixed until now, does anyon= e=20 > know of a timetable for when it will be fixed? Is anyone actively working= =20 > on this project? I???d really rather not use Linux, but at least it=20 > supports 2+ TB easily. What am I doing wrong or what???s the secret?=20 I can't tell what you are missing since you haven't said anything about what you've done. newfs will work fine, however you need to use something other than MS-DOS MBR partition tables or bsdlabels if you wish to partition the disk. GPT should work. According the the status page, snapshots are broken so background fsck apparently isn't an option. The somewhat outdated status page is here: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDJcpMXY6L6fI4GtQRArOAAJ40tWNo8CmpE6r6I8V63IPVuD+VSgCeNXsY MjS6WaRt7HKEmAAAt6+h/io= =d02J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX--
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