More than 8 labels per slice

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Wed Apr 28 05:36:31 PDT 2004


On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:03:28PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Can we just loose the BSD labels as fast as possible ?
> 
> It shouldn't be hard to find something with fewer designed in
> warts and 2^32 issues.

I second this.  As soon as controlers for the twa driver become
available it will be possiable to create single relativly cheap RADI5
arrays (that fit easil in 2U) that are 4.4TB (10^12) is size.  MBR and
BSD lables just aren't going to cut it.

-- Brooks

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