From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 10:26:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA29298 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:26:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA29293 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:26:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA03546 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for questions@freebsd.org); Fri, 1 Mar 1996 19:25:08 +0100 Message-Id: <199603011825.AA03546@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 19:25:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: john@starfire.mn.org "4Gb and larger drives?" (Mar 1, 11:50) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: john@starfire.mn.org Subject: Re: 4Gb and larger drives? Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mar 1, 11:50, john@starfire.mn.org wrote: } Subject: 4Gb and larger drives? } Someone has been trying to tell me that we can't use more than about 2Gb } of a single disk drive. I think that this is false, but I need to make } a purchase recommendation in the next couple of hours, and have no } personal experience to confirm or deny this. I would love to hear } from someone using 4Gb and larger drives, and whether you can have } single slices and filesystems which are 4Gb and larger. TIA! With 2.1R you can use any size drive you want (and actually even have files larger than 4GB). With the latest SNAP, you can even concatenate or stripe several drives for larger file systems or higher performance. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se