Subject: Re: File system > 1 Terabyte
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/30/2004 14:12:23
[ On Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at 16:11:47 (-0400), Greg A. Woods wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: File system > 1 Terabyte
>
> [ On Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at 16:51:45 (+0200), Selvan Naidoo wrote: ]
> > Subject: File system > 1 Terabyte
> >
> > I do realize that the disklabel for NetBSD 2.0 has been updated and does
> > support drive capacities in excess of 1 Terabyte.
> > For practical reasons, I would ideally need a solution to this for NetBSD
> > 1.6.2 stable.
> >
> > Is there a patch for this in NetBSD 1.6.2 STABLE?
>
> Ideally I could use such a patch for the netbsd-1-6 branch too.
>
> Once I get this Alpha ES40 running I'll have two ~1.7TB FC arrays to
> play with and though I can slice and newfs smaller partitions on them it
> would be nice to have at least one really big partition....
Oh, oh. Are >1 Tb filesystems a feature of FFSv2?
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