From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 13:24:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2746E1065680 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 13:24:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFAA8FC0C for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 13:24:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JyoIy-0004LG-7L for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 13:24:32 +0000 Received: from 240.pool80-103-193.dynamic.orange.es ([80.103.193.240]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 13:24:32 +0000 Received: from matiassurdi by 240.pool80-103-193.dynamic.orange.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 13:24:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Matias Surdi Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 15:24:22 +0200 Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <1211379419.2665.2.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 240.pool80-103-193.dynamic.orange.es User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) In-Reply-To: <1211379419.2665.2.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> Sender: news Subject: Re: Large filesystems help/ideas X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:24:35 -0000 As far as I understand from the following sentence taken from the link you are pointing and the text following it: "...Many systems don't require an MBR or GPT, and even PCs don't require it if booting and inter-operating with other OS's is not required. The next limit that comes in, though, is with the BSD disklabel..." I understand that I could have up to 8 slices of 2 Tb, with partitions (disklabel ones) inside each slice with up to 2Tb. Is that correct? What do you think about using this scheme and then join all them with vinum on a software raid-0 array? Thanks a lot for your time and help. Julien Cigar escribió: > You cannot use fdisk slices/partitions with disks over 2TB. For those > GPT should be used. More info is available from here : > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk > > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:57 +0200, Matias Surdi wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server >> with two hardware raid 5 with for a total storage capacity of about 7Tb. >> >> For the software we are using for backups, the ideal scenario would be >> to have just one "big disk" so that no space problems would appear. >> >> I've tried to install FreeBSD 7 with no success, as it seems... the >> sysinstall tool doesn't support such big slices. >> >> I've read about the "Large Data Storage on FreeBSD" but I'm still confused. >> >> I've also thought on using slices of 1Tb, and join all them using vinum. >> What do you think about this last option? >> >> Thanks a lot for your help. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"