Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:59:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? Message-ID: <20000216115914.H12517@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200002150940.DAA27212@aurora.sol.net> References: <200002150940.DAA27212@aurora.sol.net>
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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 > <snip> > 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
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