From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 11 23:55:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B789A16A40F for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:55:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760B113C43E for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:55:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JBQ00G07AFZ5J60@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:55:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no ([80.203.66.169]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with SMTP id <0JBQ002AAAFZ2XC0@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:55:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:55:10 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH In-reply-to: To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <20070112005510.2e145462.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.0 (GTK+ 2.10.7; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <45A5FD8A.6080409@svcolo.com> <2918081F-D376-410B-B6FD-42BDD3323575@svcolo.com> <20070111213444.GB17185@zone3000.net> Subject: Re: 2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:55:18 -0000 On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:43 -0800 Jo Rhett wrote: > Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I have a single 6-drive > (550gb/ea) RAID-5 array. If I split two disks off to make a RAID-1 > boot device, I'll lose 1TB of usable storage. Hmm, why can't you just make your controller create two logical arrays onto the one physical array? Doesnt the controller support this feature? (Don't shoot me, I'm not a RAID controller expert, I'm just asking) > Since we're going to be stuck with old BIOSes for a long time after > 2TB is a cheap disk drive at [store], is anyone considering doing > the work to make GPT co-exist with an MBR block? It seems like the > obvious and sensible choice. You boot from the MBR partition, and > then load the GPT module and access the remaining data after that... Is there a reason why we can't have a boot loader that boots off a GPT disk? Or is the problem with the bios? (again, I'm just asking....) -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway