Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:39:50 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small? Message-ID: <49A4E7B6.3010304@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49A4B8A6.80303@freebsd.org> References: <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090224192950.GA93786@crodrigues.org> <49A458BF.8090603@freebsd.org> <49A4B8A6.80303@freebsd.org>
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Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> When I last played around with having 1 large partition in the 6.1 days,
> it didn't actually work consistently. From memory the issue is that if
> the boot filesystem (which was on the large root partition) extended
> past a particular combination of cyl/head/sector, the machine would
> crash in the boot stage. With a 20GB disk it was fine, but a 40GB disk
> would trigger the crash.
>
> This may have been fixed since then, but it would be worth doing some
> testing on a range of hardware before we could recommend it as an option.
A counter point: we have several hundred servers of various makes[*], sizes
and ages -- most OS versions since 4.11 right up to 7.1-p3, typically with
40+ GB HDDs for the system disk (depending on age -- the most recent machines
have 160GB) -- all laid out in the all-in-one fashion and we've never seen the
problem described. I can only suppose Lawrence ran into a specific motherboard
or BIOS limitation.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] Supermicro, HP, IBM
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