Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:55:45 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max? Message-ID: <20050216225545.GB89128@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <4213B531.7000704@centtech.com> References: <4213B531.7000704@centtech.com>
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--FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:03:45PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > I've just built an enormous 10TB filesystem. When trying to newfs the=20 > disk, it bombed with something like "cannot allocate memory" after=20 > something like 23xxxxxxxxx sectors.. I noticed disklabel complains about= =20 > disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors not being supported.. =20 > Is newfs supposed to be able to work? I've used the -s option to newfs t= o=20 > limit my filesystem size to the max it would allow, which ends up being= =20 > 11350482546 1K blocks, which means I'm only losing a couple GB, which is = no=20 > sweat right now for me, but if someone wanted a 20TB filesystem, they'd b= e=20 > hosed. >=20 > Also - what are the newfs implictions? I have 1GB of RAM, is that enough? >=20 > I'm running 5.3-STABLE on this box right now.. >=20 I can't answer your specific question, but related information about the status of support for huge disks can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCE89xbHYXjKDtmC0RAgrpAKCN1yhyZnYNv9T2VN/pE3CdqpLtYwCg9yxV h7WsMnAeVsQDmuj05F8sKg0= =xGz2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW--
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