Re: cgd > 2T

[Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 28/06/14 12:16, Chris Bannister wrote:
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>> so, obviously it can't have a disklabel.
> Excuse me for interrupting ... but why "obviously"?

   http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/index.front?-tags=wedges

   Last sentence of
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2006/09/04/0005.html:

   ``No > 2TB partitions when using the old on-disk formats though.''

   I guess "obvious" is in the eye of the beholder, but the limitations
of disklabels have been reachable for regular users for a few years now.

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Kind Regards,
Jan