From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 27 3: 2:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC0037B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 03:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scribble.fsn.hu (scribble.fsn.hu [193.224.40.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7ED743E3B for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 03:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: (qmail 13756 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Sep 2002 10:02:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 10:02:17 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:02:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Attila Nagy To: Peter Wemm Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk space over 1 TB In-Reply-To: <20020926175921.E99592A7D6@canning.wemm.org> Message-ID: References: <20020926175921.E99592A7D6@canning.wemm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, > The i386 port uses the generic disklabel code, which has 32 bit logical > block addressing, which means that the partitions themselves are limited > to 1TB or so. Will this change or GEOM will be the standard method? (and thanks, I forgot that all of this is on IA-32) > But one could theoretically use a 64 bit EFI layout on a large external > raid and boot from a smaller disk. I don't want to boot from the array, so this could be a solution. Will this have any drawbacks comparing to the usual way (for example stability, speed)? Is it in production use somewhere? Could you please give me some pointers on this topic? (some kind of how-to about the usage of this stuff, there isn't much about it, just the manpage. Where could I find the userland part?) Thanks, ----------[ Free Software ISOs - http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download ]---------- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 210 1415 (194) cell.: +3630 306 6758 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message