Re: 12 TB Disk In freebsd AMD 64 ?

2010-03-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/03/2010 14:03:53, Ian Lord wrote: I kinda understand freebsd is not well suited for that. I can read between the lines that we shouldn't go over 2TB. Is this information still exact or outdated ? Outdated. The 2TB limit comes from the

RE: 12 TB Disk In freebsd AMD 64 ?

2010-03-22 Thread Dan Naumov
MBR can only work with 2TB volumes, however, we are no longer limited to MBR. With GPT, we can have really really big volumes. That being said, I really don't think you should be using a single 12TB volume with UFS, even if you have underlying redundancy provided by a hardware raid device. Have