From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 20:20:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9C316A4CE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:20:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1672043D62 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:20:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8DKL7rh006232 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:21:07 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id i8DKL78K006231 for doc@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:21:07 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:21:07 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040913202107.GA5175@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+QahgC5+KEYLbs62" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Subject: review request: 2TB disk limit in disks chapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:20:25 -0000 --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable People are starting to build disk arrays larger then 2TB and then finding they can't label them. I'd like to add some text like the following to the handbook section on adding disks. A table of capabilities would probably be useful and could be an intresting project for someone who wanted to do a little research, but I'm specificaly trying to address bsdlabel at this point. Please review my changes below. Thanks, Brooks Index: chapter.sgml =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.220 diff -u -p -r1.220 chapter.sgml --- chapter.sgml 25 Aug 2004 10:33:59 -0000 1.220 +++ chapter.sgml 13 Sep 2004 20:14:19 -0000 @@ -202,6 +202,12 @@ case, the drive will be added simply as /dev/da1e. =20 + Due to the use of 32-bit integers to store the number of sectors= ,=20 + &man.bsdlabel.8, &man.disklabel.8, &man.fdisk.8, and + sunlabel are all limited to 2^32-1 + sectors. This usually translates to a 2TB limit on disk size. + For larger disks, &man.gpt.8 partitions may be used. + Using &man.sysinstall.8; --=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 --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBRgEzXY6L6fI4GtQRAs9fAKCM5Cbd9WUu6PZkDjLhKQlL96gHoACfa7Vm 9Awtbaq2EmLxR85dQwmbCv0= =vv/r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62--