Subject: Re: NetBSD, apple fibre-channel card & 2.8TB Xserve-RAID
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/03/2004 12:11:42
--Apple-Mail-34--756548712
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
On Dec 3, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Of course since the real limit in disklabels and FFS is 2^32 sectors
> per
> partition and per filesystem the array has to be re-configured to
> present separate LUNs of no more than one terabyte each.
FFSv2 in 2.0/-current should allow you to use up to 2TB.
Yes, disklabels are a problem. In -current, you could use wedges,
although I do not have any tools for editing GPT partition maps done
yet. (And there are still other issues to be worked with wedges... but
I have one test system running with them exclusively now.)
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
--Apple-Mail-34--756548712
content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453;
name=PGP.sig
content-description: This is a digitally signed message part
content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig
content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin)
iD8DBQFBsMh+OpVKkaBm8XkRAtFFAJ0dY2ZNsB44BWN8BBC/H80mMR25ZwCgsQlJ
kViv674JB7EykpK0LlAWleY=
=B9D9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--Apple-Mail-34--756548712--