what is the safe <2 TB number, precisely ?

[Ivan Voras]

Ensel Sharon wrote:

> So the question is, do I type in 1999 ? 2000 ? 2047 ? 2048 ?
> 
> What number is totally, absolutely safe and will shield me from _all
> possible_ BIGDISK related issues ?

As Eric said, the 2 TB issue is not tied to the file system. It's tied
to the fdisk and disklabel. A perfectly valid workaround is not to use
fdisk & disklabel to partition your drive, but to partition it in the
array creation utility (safest) or use gpt (but you can't modify the gpt
table if there are mounted partitions on it).

Thus, you can do "newfs /dev/da1", "mount /dev/da1 /whatever", etc.