UFS2 with 4TB disk _totally absurd_

Ensel Sharon user at dhp.com
Fri Apr 7 04:37:30 UTC 2006


> The FDISK and bsdlabel schemes simply cannot deal with >2TB.  You'll
> need to either put your filesystem directly on the storage device
> without and slices/labels, or use GPT to create logical partitions.

2TB filesystems are _not large_.  FreeBSD should expect 2-4TB filesystems
to be in common use in peoples _living rooms_, never mind in the office or
datacenter.

So 5.x was a total wash in terms of UFS2 and snapshots, largefiles, etc.,
6.0 still doesn't have working filesystem quotas or snapshots, and it
seems, doesn't support modern (circa 2004) hard drives.

Maybe a little less time working on FreeBSD 23.0 ... ?



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