Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:49:58 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: review request: 2TB disk limit in disks chapter Message-ID: <20040913204958.GE766@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040913202107.GA5175@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20040913202107.GA5175@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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--eqp4TxRxnD4KrmFZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004.09.13 13:21:07 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > People are starting to build disk arrays larger then 2TB and then > finding they can't label them. I'd like to add some text like the > following to the handbook section on adding disks. A table of Great, documenting this is very useful! > capabilities would probably be useful and could be an intresting project > for someone who wanted to do a little research, but I'm specificaly > trying to address bsdlabel at this point. >=20 > Please review my changes below. All the entities should be closed, e.g. "&man.bsdlabel.8" should be "&man.bsdlabel.8;". > Index: chapter.sgml > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgm= l,v > retrieving revision 1.220 > diff -u -p -r1.220 chapter.sgml > --- chapter.sgml 25 Aug 2004 10:33:59 -0000 1.220 > +++ chapter.sgml 13 Sep 2004 20:14:19 -0000 > @@ -202,6 +202,12 @@ > case, the drive will be added simply as > <filename>/dev/da1e</filename>.</para> > =20 > + <para>Due to the use of 32-bit integers to store the number of secto= rs,=20 I think there is trailing whitespace on this line (unless it's just my MUA/editor). > + &man.bsdlabel.8, &man.disklabel.8, &man.fdisk.8, and Isn't disklabel just a link to the local label (bsdlabel/sunlabel etc.) now? > + <application>sunlabel</application> are all limited to 2^32-1 You should also use a manual page entity for sunlabel. > + sectors. This usually translates to a 2TB limit on disk size. > + For larger disks, &man.gpt.8 partitions may be used.</para> Shouldn't that be "2TB limits on partition size.", since you can AFAIR? make multiple <2TB partitions on one "disk"(/RAID)? --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --eqp4TxRxnD4KrmFZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBRgf2h9pcDSc1mlERAkMeAJ0dEIWhg/ThxqniH9hhynLTPdWquQCfeeC2 r3eF14AWqkBCPBMGY1BBaAA= =R8zc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eqp4TxRxnD4KrmFZ--
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