:> I thought fdisk slices were separate devices to FreeBSD so it should
:>be possible to put 1TB on each. Where did I go wrong this time, does FreeBSD
:>need to see the whole drive as a single device too ?
:
: They're only seperate devices in the same sense that a different partition
:is a different device. In both cases this is just a software abstraction.
:FreeBSD internally calculates an offset within the whole disk when individual
:slices/partitions are accessed, so the underlying whole device must be less
:that 1TB as well. Fixing this requires updating the kernel all the way from
:the device drivers to the highest levels in the kernel, and even some system
:applications.
:
:-DG
:
:David Greenman
:Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
I don't know if we will ever be able to fix this in -stable, but Kirk is
planning on changing block numbers from 32 to 64 bits in -current
as part of his UFS64 work. I don't think he's tackled the disklabel
issue yet, but I presume that he will.
Until then we are effectively limited to 1TB of physical storage per
logical drive.
-Matt
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