Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:49:21 -0700 From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> To: "Vlad GURDIGA" <gurdiga@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Enrique Ayesta Perojo <eayesta@portugalete.uned.es>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Fwd: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB Message-ID: <200706121349.l5CDnLDN096045@chez.mckusick.com>
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I believe that there are some limitations on booting FreeBSD from filesystems bigger than 2Tb, but I know of no limitations on building non-root filesystems bigger than 2Tb. I have copied Kris Kennaway and the FreeBSD filesystem mailing list in the hope that someone can give a more precise answer than me. Kirk McKusick ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:16:45 +0300 From: "Vlad GURDIGA" <gurdiga@gmail.com> To: mckusick@mckusick.com Subject: Fwd: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB X-ASK-Info: Message Queued (2007/06/11 07:17:40) X-ASK-Info: Confirmed by User (2007/06/11 07:20:20) Hello, Wikipedia says that you contributed to development of FFS and I thought you might give a sure answer to a question about it. These days I saw a question on freebsd-questions mailing list that was left without a solution till now [see below]. Is there any chance that FFS can be extended to handle larger disks? Best regards. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Enrique Ayesta Perojo <eayesta@portugalete.uned.es> Date: 11-Jun-2007 11:13 Subject: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hello I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on a HP DL320s. This server has a P400 RAID controller with 12 SATA disk drives attached to it. The RAID controller is supported in FreeBSD through the ciss driver. The problem happens when i try to use a RAID larger in size to 2 Terabyte, then the install program freezes and the machine reboots (it cannot find the disk). If the array is smaller than 2 Terabytes then there is no problem, the controller detects the disk and i can install FreeBSD on it. I have tried with i386 and AMD64 versions (the server has a Xeon processor supported by AMD64) Any clue on how to solve it? FreeBSD can't be installed on disks larger than 2 TB? Thanks _______________________________________________ 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"
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