On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 07:51:12AM +0000, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello > > If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the "Best Practice"? > Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on "/dev/sdb", or would it be > better to create just one partition from start to end and then do "mkfs.btrfs > /dev/sdb1"?
I use full unpartitioned disks for my big array (8 devices, 9TB). > Would the same recomendation hold true, if we're talking about huge disks, > like 4TB or so? Probably more so. DOS/MBR partitions have a size limit (although I must confess I don't know what it is these days). You could partition with GPT in that instance, but probably better to just use the full device. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 65E74AC0 from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- emacs: Eats Memory and Crashes. ---
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
