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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:57:46 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Matthew Rezny <mrezny@umr.edu>
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Matthew Rezny wrote:
> Also, I've seen one mention of 4TB systems in the mailing list
> archives. How was this done? Kernel patches, other trickery?

You can just put the FS on a raw device, without using a
disklabel.  Thus the disklabel limits don't come into play,
though it does limit you to one FS per device.

-- Terry

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