Large filesystems help/ideas

[Matias Surdi]

As far as I understand from the following sentence taken from the link 
you are pointing and the text following it:

"...Many systems don't require an MBR or GPT, and even PCs don't require 
it if booting and inter-operating with other OS's is not required. The 
next limit that comes in, though, is with the BSD disklabel..."

I understand that I could have up to 8 slices of 2 Tb, with partitions 
(disklabel ones) inside each slice with up to 2Tb.

Is that correct?

What do you think about using this scheme and then join all them with 
vinum on a software raid-0 array?

Thanks a lot for your time and help.




Julien Cigar escribió:
> You cannot use fdisk slices/partitions with disks over 2TB. For those
> GPT should be used. More info is available from here :
> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk
> 
> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:57 +0200, Matias Surdi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server 
>> with two hardware raid 5 with for a total storage capacity of about 7Tb.
>>
>> For the software we are using for backups, the ideal scenario would be 
>> to have just one "big disk" so that no space problems would appear.
>>
>> I've tried to install FreeBSD 7 with no success, as it seems... the 
>> sysinstall tool doesn't support such big slices.
>>
>> I've read about the "Large Data Storage on FreeBSD" but I'm still confused.
>>
>> I've also thought on using slices of 1Tb, and join all them using vinum. 
>> What do you think about this last option?
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help.
>>
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