From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 29 14:08:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71FB516A418 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:08:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (thingy.kcilink.com [74.92.149.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4779913C474 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:08:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF06EB80D for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:08:22 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: References: <31BB09D7-B58A-47AC-8DD1-6BB8141170D8@khera.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4253EB06-63B9-4B4F-9CC3-2254714AF8DD@khera.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Vivek Khera Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:08:21 -0400 To: FreeBSD Stable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: Re: large RAID volume partition strategy X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:08:54 -0000 On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > fdisk and bsdlabels both have a limit: because of the way they > store the > data about the disk space they span, they can't store values that > reference space > 2 TB. In particular, every partition must start > at an > offset <= 2 TB, and cannot be larger than 2 TB. Oh... one more note: if I don't use fdisk or paritions, I *can* newfs the raw drive much bigger than 2Tb. I just don't want to do that for a production box. :-)