newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max?
Claus Guttesen
cguttesen at yahoo.dk
Wed Feb 16 21:53:30 GMT 2005
> I've just built an enormous 10TB filesystem. When
> trying to newfs the disk, it bombed with something
> like "cannot allocate memory" after something like
> 23xxxxxxxxx sectors.. I noticed disklabel complains
> about disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors not being
> supported..
Aren't you supposed to use gpt(8) to define partitions
larger than 2 TB?
> Is newfs supposed to be able to work? I've used the
> -s option to newfs to limit my filesystem size to
> the max it would allow, which ends up being
> 11350482546 1K blocks, which means I'm only losing a
> couple GB, which is no sweat right now for me, but
> if someone wanted a 20TB filesystem, they'd be
> hosed.
Then the question is whether newfs reads
gpt-partitioned disks? From newfs(8):
Before running newfs the disk must be labeled using
bsdlabel(8).
How did you create such a huge partition? Your
question is quite interesting, I'm at a
storage-solution which supports LUN's larger than 2.2
TB.
regards
Claus
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