Have you tried LFS ?
I would be interested in the LFS results, even if it fails.
Try newfs_lfs -D -A raid0a
Also check the man page. There are a lot of options.
LFS is stable on current (3.99.24) and works like a charm on my Notebook.

Zafer.



2006/8/4, Markus W Kilbinger <mk@kilbi.de>:
> >>>>> "Geert" == Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org> writes:
>
>     >> Hmm, any variant of newfs I tried to create a ffs on
>     >> /dev/rraid0d failed complaining about exceeding the above
>     >> mentioned maxinum disklabel size (1666108800). Ayn way to
>     >> circumvent this (kernels internal opinion about the maximun
>     >> disk size)?
>
>     Geert> Try "newfs -O2" to create an FFSv2 filesystem. FFSv2
>     Geert> supports filesystems bigger than 1TB whereas FFSv1 does
>     Geert> not.
>
> Hmm, I (already) did:
>
>   # newfs -I -O2 raid0d
>   /dev/rraid0d: 813529.7MB (1666108800 sectors) block size 16384,
>   fragment size 2048 using 4399 cylinder groups of 184.94MB, 11836 blks,
>   22976 inodes.
>   super-block backups (for fsck_ffs -b #) at:
>   160, 378912, 757664, 1136416, 1515168, 1893920, 2272672, 2651424,
>   3030176,
>   ......................
>
> ... which seems to work but only takes the wrong / limited raid0
> partition size.
>
> Setting the real raid0 disk size via newfs:
>
>   # newfs -I -O2 -s10256043392 raid0d
>   newfs: size 10256043392 exceeds maximum file system size on
>   `/dev/rraid0d' of 1666108800 sectors
>
> ... fails as already mentioned.
>
> What do I do wrong!?
>
> Markus.
>