Growing UFS beyond 2 TB

[Eric Anderson]

On 05/27/07 11:21, Richard Noorlandt wrote:
> 2007/5/25, Jan Mikkelsen <janm at transactionware.com>:
>> You can use the Areca controller to create separate devices/LUNs,
>> and then ignore fdisk/gpt/labels altogether for the large
>> filesystem you want to grow, and just stick the filesystem directly
>> on /dev/da1, or whatever it ends up being.
> 
> 
> I didn't realize that you could actually put the FS directly on the drive
> without partitioning it first, but it makes sense. Are there any known
> problems with such a setup? As far as I know, most people always partition
> their drives, so I don't know how often this is done..

I try *not* to partition areas that are used for data only, if I can 
carve LUNs from the array or controller.  I have set up lots of servers 
with that configuration, and they work nicely.


> As a bonus, you don't have to do all the calculations to figure out
>> where the partitions should start.  See:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2006-October/002312.h
>> tml
> 
> 
> That appears to be quite a nice bonus. Better performance with less work ;-)

Eric