Subject: Re: netbsd 3.0/xen 2.0.7 and large file systems
To: Chris Brookes <cbrookes@gmail.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 04/02/2006 14:44:02
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:54:45PM -0600, Chris Brookes wrote:
> I'm running a Xen 2.0.7 Dom-0 with NetBSD 3.0 and several NetBSD
> Dom-U's. I'm about to add 4*500GB drives to my 3Ware Raid card on
> Dom-0, and create a 1.5TB array. I want this space to be used by my
> "file server Dom-U". Any special considerations if I were to build a
> 1.5Tb partition on the Dom-0 and use the whole thing as a virtual
> block device for the Dom-U?

No, there should be no problems here. The blkif interface uses uint64_t for
the sector number.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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