Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:00:42 GMT From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/71408: bsdlabel refuses to label a 2.7TB array on a 3ware 9500-12 SATA controller Message-ID: <200409081800.i88I0gjB020952@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/71408; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: nevans@talkpoint.com Subject: Re: bin/71408: bsdlabel refuses to label a 2.7TB array on a 3ware 9500-12 SATA controller Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:55:09 -0700 --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:20:32PM +0000, Nick Evans wrote: > It seems that 2 terabytes is the treshold when bsdlabel starts acting fu= nny. The on disk format of the BSD label does not support partitions greater then 2TB. What we probably need to do is detect attempts to label such disks and refuse. If you don't need to boot off of the array you can use gpt(8) partitions instead. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBP0d8XY6L6fI4GtQRAvYeAJwMhvNEI/CUGstApvBNNLxP8cii+gCfVR73 SIOJGdlJ7gv4YdDKqY9YIGA= =wpqO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq--
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