Pity I didn't know about this before I built two 1200 MB arrays. Linux and FreeBSD both died past 1 TB, so I had to make the array smaller.
I have used NetBSD before, so this would not have been a problem. I should have done my homework. :-) Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Walter wrote: > This is no doubt heresy coming from a newbie especially, > but I was reading that NetBSD can support at least up to > 4TB: > http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/features.html#large-filesystems > > Walter > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > "Joseph Gleason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > IIRC There was a 1TB limit on the size of any filesystem (or actually of any > > > block device) in FreeBSD based the kernel internaly using a 512 byte block > > > size and having a max of 2^31 blocks. (512*2^31 = 2^40 = 1TB) > > > > > > Do I remember correctly? > > > > Close, but not quite. The kernel doesn't deal with blocks internally, > > and the block size used by the filesystem is 16k by default. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
