Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:01:45 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: adhir@worldbank.org Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning large disk for news... Message-ID: <199612212301.PAA16541@baloon.mimi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961220145743.4809A-100000@bheema.worldbank.org> (adhir@worldbank.org)
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(I don't know if you got any mail from -hackers or -questions readers, I trimmed the CC: down to -stable only. Please don't post a question to more than one list, thanks.) * I remember in the past (way back in the 1.1.5.1 - 2.0 days) there was some * trouble with partitions larger than 2 gigs. Is this still the case? I don't think so, we've been using some pretty big partitions (4 x 9GB, 16 x 9GB, etc.) and aside from the ahc-related crashes, haven't seen any problems. * If * so, I'm thinking maybe I can use the ccd driver to serially concatenate 5 * partitions on the disk together for use as one large news spool. (^_^;).... Whatever problems you may have, I'm pretty sure that using ccd that way won't help. The problems with large partitions were in the disklabel/filesystem code, which will still have to see the concatenated disk as one large partition anyway.... Satoshi
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