Just to be clear about the problem we're talking about.  The problem is
that NetBSD currently cannot address disk sectors above 2 TB of data.
Worse, because the disk info is printed as signed integers when being shown
to users, disks larger than 1TB show up with a negative number of
cylinders, heads and sectors.
	Bill is proposing that we convert our disk labels 
and internal disk addressing schemes to use quad_t, which is a signed
64-bit value.
	That doesn't fix the filesystem size problem, but 
does allow us to populate multi-tb disks with 1-tb filesystems.

	I'm in favor of this approach, but would now like guidence on how
folks think it should be undertaken.
-thanks
-Brian
On Dec 10,  4:33pm, Bill Studenmund wrote:
} Subject: Re: newfs can't make filesystems over 1TB in size
} On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
} 
} > On Monday,  9 December 2002 at 20:18:39 -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
} >
} > Why not just port UFS 2 from FreeBSD?
} 
} ???
} 
} Uhm, we weren't talking about file systems.
} 
} While porting or not porting UFS2 is an interesting question (and we
} probably will do UFS2), it doesn't follow from talking about disklabels.
} :-)
} 
} We can get away with upping the fragment size for a little while, but the
} problem we're talking about now is hitting us now.
} 
} Take care,
} 
} Bill
} 
>-- End of excerpt from Bill Studenmund