From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 19:49:18 2005 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 B1C3016A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:49:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB8143D2F for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:49:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1HJnGLJ072088; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:49:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4214F538.30409@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:49:12 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <20050216215325.9201.qmail@web26805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <4213C1FB.6030802@centtech.com> <20050216225528.GB2787@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <4213D099.3020504@centtech.com> <20050216230709.GA22840@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050216230709.GA22840@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/707/Wed Feb 16 16:00:07 2005 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max? 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: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:49:18 -0000 Brooks Davis wrote: [..snip..] >>>>>>I've just built an enormous 10TB filesystem. When >>>>>>trying to newfs the disk, it bombed with something >>>>>>like "cannot allocate memory" after something like >>>>>>23xxxxxxxxx sectors.. I noticed disklabel complains >>>>>>about disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors not being >>>>>>supported.. [..snip..] > In that case, you probably don't actually have a bsdlabel there. It's > not longer required with geom since you can newfs disks. > > -- Brooks > Ok - but I'm still wondering why newfs can't newfs.. Here's the real error pasted in: a newfs -U /dev/vinum/plex/raid.p0 gives: ... 23425543840, 23425920160, 23426296480, 23426672800, 23427049120, 23427425440, 23427801760, 23428178080, 23428554400, 23428930720, 23429307040, 23429683360, 23430059680, 23430436000, 23430812320, 23431188640, 23431564960, 23431941280, 23432317600, 23432693920, 23433070240, 23433446560, 23433822880, 23434199200, 23434575520, 23434951840, 23435328160, 23435704480, 23436080800, 23436457120, 23436833440, 23437209760, 23437586080, 23437962400, 23438338720,newfs: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 23438715040: Cannot allocate memory But: newfs -U -s 23438338720 /dev/vinum/plex/raid.p0 works.. So I'm losing the last part of my partition.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------