On 11 May 2011 03:37, Andrea Venturoli <m...@netfence.it> wrote: > Hello. > Sorry for the stupid questions, but Google only turns out very old answers > which might be outdated (at least I hope so). > > What is the maximum partition size I can use on 7.3? > I've used a 3TB gstripe on amd64, but now I'd like to gstripe two 2TB HDs on > a i386. > Will that work?
Probably, but a gstripe isn't a partition. The gstripe specific numbers seem to be (via /usr/src/sys/geom/stripe/g_stripe.h): uint16_t md_no; /* Disk number. */ uint16_t md_all; /* Number of all disks. */ uint32_t md_stripesize; /* Stripe size. */ char md_provider[16]; /* Hardcoded provider. */ uint64_t md_provsize; /* Provider's size. */ So, I guess the maximum gstripe will be around 2^96, or 79228162514264337593543950336 bytes (or is that blocks?). The largest filesystem you can put on that is limited to UFS2's 2^73 (according to the knobs at wikipedia), so you'll have to start splitting up your gstripes in 41 binary orders of magnitude. Good luck. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"