On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, John Nietzsche wrote: > Dear list members, > > is there plans for openbsd to support multi terabyte filesystems? > Which release should i expect to see such support? > > Thanks in advance.
Yes, work is being done. See http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070601190500. In the meantime we made progress (disklabel support for large disks/partitions, large disk address support in the buffer layer and quite some userland tool diffs are committed) but the work is not finished. As things are now, even if I would commit diffs (from pedro@) I have in my tree to support > 2TB filesystems, there are not very practical for actual use. As an example, with the default fragment and block size, such filesystems will need more that the maximum memory a program can take to fsck the filesystem, even on amd64. We have to solve that as well. You can help by testing -current. -Otto
