From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 28 05:36:30 2004 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 DA97C16A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C176243D5F for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:36:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i3SCaSjU014508; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:36:28 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3/Submit) id i3SCaRWC014507; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:36:27 -0700 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:36:27 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20040428123626.GA14353@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20040427141937.GA44151@dragon.nuxi.com> <64169.1083153808@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <64169.1083153808@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Harald Schmalzbauer cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More than 8 labels per slice 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, 28 Apr 2004 12:36:31 -0000 --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:03:28PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Can we just loose the BSD labels as fast as possible ? >=20 > It shouldn't be hard to find something with fewer designed in > warts and 2^32 issues. I second this. As soon as controlers for the twa driver become available it will be possiable to create single relativly cheap RADI5 arrays (that fit easil in 2U) that are 4.4TB (10^12) is size. MBR and BSD lables just aren't going to cut it. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAj6VKXY6L6fI4GtQRAt9uAJ4/HqEbAPDFu6o9QbEBDVfOKkiKUwCfVG9J XGxbcYgLMZgUTfy2L4JcN+M= =PuGL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy--