On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:59:32PM -0500, Eric wrote: > hello... > > i have been trying (for many moons now) to create a filesystem larger than > 1TB. I've had a variety of RAID controllers in my boxes, and I have 250GB > drives, so it adds up quick. I've also tried doing this with vinum, but > that fails too. > > i've searched for help on this topic, and i've found lots of info, but > nothing substantial. I've read everything from it being a sysinstall > issue, to needing new versions of the CLI tools (newfs, dd, disklabel), to > newfs using the wrong variable type to store fssize, to having to update > to fbsd 5.x to use UFS2. Other reports say it's a softlimit imposed > somewhere, some say to make the frag size in newfs to 1024B for a 2TB max > volume, it has to be dedicated, it has to be non-dedicated... the list of > suggestions goes on and on.
I've got several boxes running 5.x that have >1TB file systems. The only issue I ran into (other then the insane fsck times) is the fact that sysinstall's fdisk blows up somewhere over 1TB. The workaround if you have to install on a large array is to use sysinstall's fdisk to create a slice large enough to hold the OS and leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned. You can then add a slice for the rest of the disk later since fdisk works with larger volumes. Default newfs parameters in 5.x seem to work OK on a 1.7TB array. With disks that large, it's probably wise to think a bit more then usual about the average file size so you can choose your parameters correctly. I'm almost certain you will have no luck in 4.x. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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