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Hello,

>> There is another limit, in that Sun labels have only 32 bits for
>> partition size in sectors and only 8 partitions, which imposes a limit
>> of 32GB usable space, unless you use RAW_PART - or unless you use my
>> patches to increase the partition count, or use the Sun label for
>> nothing but booting and use another label kept elsewhere for live
>> operation (which latter I hear NetBSD/sparc does these days).
>
> A bit off-topic, but did Sun do anything to address this limit? I can't
> believe that Solaris has a limit of 4 GB per partition (isn't it 
> actually
> 2 GB? 2^32 * 512 byte sector would give 2 GB). I am going to add a new
> disk to a machine running Solaris 2.4 so I would like to know what the
> limits are...

Errm, 32 Bits for partition size in sectors gives 2TB ( 4G * 0.5KB if 
you use 512 byte sectors). Solaris had a limit of 2GB per file, but 
since 2.5 or so there's a mount option to support big files.

have fun
Michael
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