From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 25 21:23:23 2009 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 86EFE1065670; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from tensor.andric.com (cl-327.ede-01.nl.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:7b8:2ff:146::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486098FC13; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:d93e:519d:eeb6:9049] (unknown [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:d93e:519d:eeb6:9049]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.andric.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ABEA95C43; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:23:21 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <49CAA0CB.2040800@andric.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:23:23 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090324 Shredder/3.0b3pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barry Pederson References: <49CA3795.609@bsd.ee> <49CA4498.2020007@bsd.ee> <49CA837D.3040202@barryp.org> In-Reply-To: <49CA837D.3040202@barryp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras Subject: Re: 32bit filesystem limitations 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, 25 Mar 2009 21:23:23 -0000 On 2009-03-25 20:18, Barry Pederson wrote: > Is there any reason not to skip labeling/partitioning and use da1 > directly? Just newfs it and mount it. I've done this with a couple > large Areca arrays with no ill effect so far. As long as you aren't going to run e.g. Windows dual-boot. ;-)