Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:08:21 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: large RAID volume partition strategy Message-ID: <4253EB06-63B9-4B4F-9CC3-2254714AF8DD@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <fa5men$v5r$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <31BB09D7-B58A-47AC-8DD1-6BB8141170D8@khera.org> <fa5b4v$8e5$1@sea.gmane.org> <EED39309-A95F-4A2D-8E35-C1650A55E482@khera.org> <fa5men$v5r$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > fdisk and bsdlabels both have a limit: because of the way they > store the > data about the disk space they span, they can't store values that > reference space > 2 TB. In particular, every partition must start > at an > offset <= 2 TB, and cannot be larger than 2 TB. Oh... one more note: if I don't use fdisk or paritions, I *can* newfs the raw drive much bigger than 2Tb. I just don't want to do that for a production box. :-)
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