Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 22:48:34 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: "Robert J. Strickler" <rstrickler@thrunet.net> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Support for drive >8M Message-ID: <16541.839299714@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Aug 1996 12:45:42 CDT." <01BB82CC.048B5500@arcturus.thrunet.net>
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"Robert J. Strickler" wrote in message ID <01BB82CC.048B5500@arcturus.thrunet.net>: > We are looking to attach a 9G Seagate drive and a 20G Mylex RAID "drive" to a > FreeBSD supported SCSI controller. > SGI's efs format only supports 8G partitions and this has made us > wary of large disk capacities and Un*xes. > Will FreeBSD support these capacities as a single 9G and 20G partitions? I've seen a micropolis 9Gb drive as a single filesystem over a year ago on FreeBSD, and Satoshi Asami (asami@freebsd.org) has been doing CCD (conconated disk) driver development, with filesystems much larger than 9Gb... So you're pretty safe. I think the limit in 2.1.5-RELEASE is something like 1terrabytes for a single filesystem, although performance issues to do with the FS layout may become critical before then. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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