From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 21:28:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F97816A4CE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:28:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C0B743D39 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:28:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8DLTR0X017513; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:29:27 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id i8DLTRWf017512; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:29:27 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:29:27 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Claus Guttesen Message-ID: <20040913212927.GA16741@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20040913210213.84966.qmail@web14106.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040913210213.84966.qmail@web14106.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: max. partition size on 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:28:44 -0000 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:02:13PM +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote: > Hi. >=20 > Not shure whether this is the right place to ask, but > I haven't found other sources of information. >=20 > I deployed a beta3-nfs-server which works fine. Two > IDE-to-SCSI-cabinets are connected to the server using > an aic7899-controller. The first cabinet has approx. 2 > TB (12 disks at 200 GB, as expected). When I connected > the second cabinet using 250 GB disks, I exptected > approx. 2.5 TB, but only saw 764 GB. >=20 > Is there any limit that is imposed by 5.x in terms of > max. partition size? This is running on a Compaq DL > 380 dual PIII (G2) with 3 GB RAM, microstorage > cabinet. >=20 > The raid-system became visible by the usual > 'camcontrol rescan all' and I used 'fdisk -I /dev/da2' > and 'disklabel -w /dev/da2s1'. The limit on the size of a disk is unreachable, but we have a lack of good partitioning tools at the moment. bsdlabel (the program formerly known as disklabel) is limited to 2TB. Sunlabel appears to be limited to 16TB in 2TB partitions and fdisk is limited to 2TB due to bugs in the program and 4TB due to the actual format. If you don't need to boot off the slice, you may wish to try gpt(8) which should support any disk money can buy, but which we can't currently boot off of GPT partitions. I'm in the process of getting some documentation on this in to the handbook. -- 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 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBRhE2XY6L6fI4GtQRAjalAJ0YOGasYZPAmQySeFvteIAa4CNzoACeIhMm lsA1vB/hLxY46QUHwpFF84Y= =G2SJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--