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Date:      Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:55:59 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max?
Message-ID:  <20050217195559.GA6201@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:49:12PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Brooks Davis wrote:
> [..snip..]
> >>>>>>I've just built an enormous 10TB filesystem.  When
> >>>>>>trying to newfs the disk, it bombed with something
> >>>>>>like "cannot allocate memory" after something like
> >>>>>>23xxxxxxxxx sectors..  I noticed disklabel complains
> >>>>>>about disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors not being
> >>>>>>supported.. =20
>=20
> [..snip..]
> >In that case, you probably don't actually have a bsdlabel there.  It's
> >not longer required with geom since you can newfs disks.
> >
> >-- Brooks
> >
>=20
> Ok - but I'm still wondering why newfs can't newfs.. Here's the real erro=
r=20
> pasted in:
>=20
> a newfs -U /dev/vinum/plex/raid.p0  gives:
> ...
> 23425543840, 23425920160, 23426296480, 23426672800, 23427049120,=20
> 23427425440, 23427801760, 23428178080, 23428554400, 23428930720,
> 23429307040, 23429683360, 23430059680, 23430436000, 23430812320,=20
> 23431188640, 23431564960, 23431941280, 23432317600, 23432693920,
> 23433070240, 23433446560, 23433822880, 23434199200, 23434575520,=20
> 23434951840, 23435328160, 23435704480, 23436080800, 23436457120,
> 23436833440, 23437209760, 23437586080, 23437962400, 23438338720,newfs:=20
> wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 23438715040: Cannot allocate memory
>=20
> But:
> newfs -U -s 23438338720 /dev/vinum/plex/raid.p0=20
> works.. So I'm losing the last part of my partition..

I'm guessing you are hitting the process datasize limit with newfs.  You
should be able to raise it a bit from the default.  Be warned, that fsck
has much higher memory requirements so recovery may be difficult if not
impossiable without a 64-bit machine.

-- Brooks

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