From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 23:05:41 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 7526416A4CE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:05:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2BC43D5C for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:05:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 9814 invoked by uid 1005); 13 Sep 2004 23:05:39 -0000 Received: from rainer@ultra-secure.de by bsd.ultra-secure.de by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 Clear:RC:1(217.232.252.244):. Processed in 0.137764 secs); 13 Sep 2004 23:05:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.225?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@217.232.252.244) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Sep 2004 23:05:39 -0000 Message-ID: <414627C2.6030401@ultra-secure.de> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:05:38 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: de, de-de, en-us, en, de-at, de-li, de-ch MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org References: <20040913210213.84966.qmail@web14106.mail.yahoo.com> <20040913212927.GA16741@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <41461A9F.50707@ultra-secure.de> <20040913163322.V59291@pooker.samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20040913163322.V59291@pooker.samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: max. partition size on 5.x 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: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:05:41 -0000 Scott Long wrote: >On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> >> A howto for gpt would also be good. >> Not that I need one now, but now that 1GB mail-storage has come en vogue.... >> >> >> >> cheers, >> Rainer >> > >See http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk. It's not complete yet by any >means, but it gives some useful info. > > I see, thanks. So, the current status is that though it may be possible to create a partition > 2 TB, several utilities may show "odd" behaviour (according to that page) ? Well, as I said, it's not currently a problem for me (yet). But what is one supposed to do ? Use Linux with 2.6-kernel as NFS-server, partition the disk into 2 TB- (or 1 TB) chunks and mount those indivually ? This should in no way be understood as a criticism, it's merely a question. cheers, Rainer -- =================================================== ~ Rainer Duffner - rainer@ultra-secure.de ~ ~ Freising - Munich - Germany ~ ~ Unix - Linux - BSD - OpenSource - Security ~ ~ http://www.ultra-secure.de/~rainer/pubkey.pgp ~ ===================================================