From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 15 18:25:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57EC94AD2 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 18:18:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA13477; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:59:14 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:59:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Joe Greco Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? Message-ID: <20000216115914.H12517@freebie.lemis.com> References: <200002150940.DAA27212@aurora.sol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200002150940.DAA27212@aurora.sol.net> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 15 February 2000 at 3:40:58 -0600, Joe Greco wrote: > So I wanted to vinum my new 1.9TB of disks together just for chuckles, and > it went OK up to the newfs.. > > S play.p0.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 46 GB > S play.p0.s1 State: up PO: 32 MB Size: 46 GB > > S play.p0.s37 State: up PO: 1184 MB Size: 46 GB Well, it's a pity you weren't able to newfs it, but I'm glad to see that Vinum could do it. I'm not sure that striping buys you anything here, though, and a 32 MB stripe is going to be worse than concatenation: you'll have *all* your superblocks on the same disk! > Just thought I'd mention it. I'm putting the machine into > production, with the smaller filesystems that I originally intended, > but it seemed noteworthy to pass this along. JOOI, how big are the file systems? Why did you choose this size? > Dunno how many terabyte filesystem folks are out there. None, by the looks of it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message