Subject: Re: disklabeling a 5 TB partition!?
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/06/2006 11:04:16
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:37:38PM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:42:15PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:22:51PM +0200, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
> > > 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)?
> > 
> > Try "newfs -O2" to create an FFSv2 filesystem.  FFSv2 supports filesystems
> > bigger than 1TB whereas FFSv1 does not.  
> 
> I strongly doubt it.

Well, I used ffsv2 on a 2.8TB filesystem, without troubles.

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