From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 21 15:02:24 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA06594 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfw-ix1.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix1.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA06589 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:02:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from baloon.mimi.com (sjx-ca25-02.ix.netcom.com [204.30.65.194]) by dfw-ix1.ix.netcom.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA26287; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:01:48 -0800 Received: (from asami@localhost) by baloon.mimi.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) id PAA16541; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:01:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:01:45 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199612212301.PAA16541@baloon.mimi.com> To: adhir@worldbank.org CC: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (adhir@worldbank.org) Subject: Re: Partitioning large disk for news... From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (I don't know if you got any mail from -hackers or -questions readers, I trimmed the CC: down to -stable only. Please don't post a question to more than one list, thanks.) * I remember in the past (way back in the 1.1.5.1 - 2.0 days) there was some * trouble with partitions larger than 2 gigs. Is this still the case? I don't think so, we've been using some pretty big partitions (4 x 9GB, 16 x 9GB, etc.) and aside from the ahc-related crashes, haven't seen any problems. * If * so, I'm thinking maybe I can use the ccd driver to serially concatenate 5 * partitions on the disk together for use as one large news spool. (^_^;).... Whatever problems you may have, I'm pretty sure that using ccd that way won't help. The problems with large partitions were in the disklabel/filesystem code, which will still have to see the concatenated disk as one large partition anyway.... Satoshi