Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:17:54 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, mrcpu@internetcds.com, clash@tasam.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB) Message-ID: <20020321071754.D96231@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <20020321131958.9C379BB39@i8k.babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:19:58AM -0500 References: <20020321151338.T2793-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> <20020321131958.9C379BB39@i8k.babbleon.org>
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>No, this has been mentioned multiple times in this thread: > > slices won't help. If the disk is > 1TB, then you can't slice it, dice it, > or do anything else with it. You just can't use it with FreeBSD, period. > >However, from what I gather here, if you concatenated separate physical disks >to make a single logical disk, and if each file system used large block >sizes, that *might* work. Nope. Neither the physical nor logical disk can be greater than 1TB. Using Vinum or ccd is not a work-around for this problem. Now, *if* you had a hardware RAID system that could present it's storage to the host as multiple LUNs that were each < 1TB (each one showing up as seperate physical disk devices), then you could use it with FreeBSD, but that's not what has been discussed here. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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