Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:57:30 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gmirror provider name limit [Was: Re: geom_label: gpt/labelname for gmirror provider?] Message-ID: <4A6F582A.8050604@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <4A6F52BE.9000901@omnilan.de> References: <4A5CB2D1.5070106@omnilan.de> <h3iegi$kpu$1@ger.gmane.org> <4A5CC981.8010000@omnilan.de> <4A5EDA14.8000703@omnilan.de> <4A5F0F4F.5060505@andric.com> <4A6F52BE.9000901@omnilan.de>
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On 2009-07-28 21:34, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >> As far as I can see, this limit applies to gconcat, gjournal, gmirror, >> graid3, gshsec and gstripe: >> >> sys/geom/concat/g_concat.h:96: char md_provider[16]; /* Hardcoded provider. */ >> sys/geom/journal/g_journal.h:292: char md_provider[16]; /* Hardcoded provider. */ >> sys/geom/mirror/g_mirror.h:250: char md_provider[16]; /* Hardcoded provider. */ >> sys/geom/raid3/g_raid3.h:281: char md_provider[16]; /* Hardcoded provider. */ >> sys/geom/shsec/g_shsec.h:88: char md_provider[16]; /* Hardcoded provider. */ >> sys/geom/stripe/g_stripe.h:91: char md_provider[16]; /* Hardcoded provider. */ > > Are there any problems to expect when extending the array size? > To make use og gptid it had to be 43. It looks like most of the schemes use the md_provider field, with a hardcoded size of 16 bytes, in their metadata (usually the last sector on the provider). So it is impossible to increase, without modifying the metadata format.home | help
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