On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:03:45PM -0600, Eric Anderson 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.. > 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. > > Also - what are the newfs implictions? I have 1GB of RAM, is that enough? > > I'm running 5.3-STABLE on this box right now.. > I can't answer your specific question, but related information about the status of support for huge disks can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris_at_unixpages.org brueffer_at_FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D
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