Re: newfs limits? 10TB filesystem max?

From: Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:58:19 -0600
Claus Guttesen wrote:
>>I've just built an enormous 10TB filesystem.  When
>>trying to newfs the disk, it bombed with something
>>like "cannot allocate memory" after something like
>>23xxxxxxxxx sectors..  I noticed disklabel complains
>>about disks with more than 2^32-1 sectors not being
>>supported..  
> 
> 
> Aren't you supposed to use gpt(8) to define partitions
> larger than 2 TB?

No idea - this is the first I've heard of gpt really..


>>Is newfs supposed to be able to work?  I've used the
>>-s option to newfs to limit my filesystem size to
>>the max it would allow, which ends up being
>>11350482546 1K blocks, which means I'm only losing a
>>couple GB, which is no sweat right now for me, but
>>if someone wanted a 20TB filesystem, they'd be
>>hosed.
> 
> 
> Then the question is whether newfs reads
> gpt-partitioned disks? From newfs(8):
> 
> Before running newfs the disk must be labeled using
> bsdlabel(8). 
> 
> How did you create such a huge partition? Your
> question is quite interesting, I'm at a
> storage-solution which supports LUN's larger than 2.2
> TB.

I used vinum to stripe 6 2TB partitions connected to 2 fiber channel disk arrays.  Vinum automatically does the bsdlabel part.  I was merely wanting to see what bsdlabel had to say about the vinum disk (if anything).

Using newfs on it worked as long as I specified a smaller sector count.

Eric




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