In article <200604242112.k3OLCmqV016335@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>,
Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org> wrote:
>	Further investigation reveals that FreeBSD also seems to suffer from
>this limitation.  David, how hard do you think it would be to define a new
>disklabel format in which all the geometry values are 64-bit values?  I'm
>thinking a new magic value could be assigned, and  NetBSD could be taught
>to recognize both values, much like was done for the new partition ID.
>	Also, in looking at the code for raidframe, it seems there may be some
>lurking bugs with signed versus unsigned numbers being used in the same
>place.  At least, it appears there are some issues there with raidframe.
>	Thoughts?
>-Brian

Brian,

I would advise against creating such a large filesystem/partition without
a journaled filesystem. This is not a NetBSD specific problem. I have had
disastrous results with linux too (and their journaled filesystems).

christos