From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 22:55:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E501416A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:55:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 050DB43D39 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:55:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IC1003D1117NS@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:55:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:55:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.92])j1GMtqmE025451; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:55:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))(Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D52F2842E; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:55:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 362A12285B; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:55:46 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:55:45 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <4213B531.7000704@centtech.com> To: Eric Anderson Message-id: <20050216225545.GB89128@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <4213B531.7000704@centtech.com> cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:55:58 -0000 --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--