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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: gmirror, gpart and MBR vs GPT in the Handbook
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On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:23:20 -0900, Peter Giessel wrote:
> UFS works on drives bigger than 3 TB (ref /dev/da1p1 and /dev/mirror/gm0.journal):

That's impressive! Did you apply any special tuning for newfs,
or did you require something "non-standard" when creating the
partitions? I'm just asking because sooner or later I will
probably get disks > 2 TB and intend to use them with UFS. :-)



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