Re: Raid0 max volume size

2019-11-09 Thread Raymond, David
Thanks, that did the trick!

Dave

On 11/9/19, Otto Moerbeek  wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 08:24:36AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
>
>> Hmmm
>>
>> On install of openbsd a second, non-boot 4 TB disk was initialized by
>> fdisk in the usual way.  My intention was to create a single partition
>> and file system for the whole disk.  However, disklabel limits me to a
>> partition size of 2 TB.  The c partition automatically covers the full
>> disk, but I didn't think one could actually create a file system on
>> the c partition.
>>
>> Is there something I am missing?
>
> yes, use the b command in disklabel to make the OpenBSD partition
> cover the whole disk.
>
> b 
>
> should do it,
>
>   -Otto
>
>
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On 11/9/19, Otto Moerbeek  wrote:
>> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 07:01:02AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
>> >
>> >> Does raid0 allow the creation of file systems bigger than the 2 TB
>> >> limit
>> >> of ffs?
>> >
>> > Yes. And ffs in general does not have that limit. newfs will move to
>> > ffs2 if needed.
>> >
>> >-Otto
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> David J. Raymond
>> david.raym...@nmt.edu
>> http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond
>


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http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond



Re: Raid0 max volume size

2019-11-09 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 08:24:36AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:

> Hmmm
> 
> On install of openbsd a second, non-boot 4 TB disk was initialized by
> fdisk in the usual way.  My intention was to create a single partition
> and file system for the whole disk.  However, disklabel limits me to a
> partition size of 2 TB.  The c partition automatically covers the full
> disk, but I didn't think one could actually create a file system on
> the c partition.
> 
> Is there something I am missing?

yes, use the b command in disklabel to make the OpenBSD partition
cover the whole disk.

b 

should do it,

-Otto


> 
> Dave
> 
> On 11/9/19, Otto Moerbeek  wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 07:01:02AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
> >
> >> Does raid0 allow the creation of file systems bigger than the 2 TB limit
> >> of ffs?
> >
> > Yes. And ffs in general does not have that limit. newfs will move to
> > ffs2 if needed.
> >
> > -Otto
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> David J. Raymond
> david.raym...@nmt.edu
> http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond



Re: Raid0 max volume size

2019-11-09 Thread Raymond, David
Hmmm

On install of openbsd a second, non-boot 4 TB disk was initialized by
fdisk in the usual way.  My intention was to create a single partition
and file system for the whole disk.  However, disklabel limits me to a
partition size of 2 TB.  The c partition automatically covers the full
disk, but I didn't think one could actually create a file system on
the c partition.

Is there something I am missing?

Dave

On 11/9/19, Otto Moerbeek  wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 07:01:02AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
>
>> Does raid0 allow the creation of file systems bigger than the 2 TB limit
>> of ffs?
>
> Yes. And ffs in general does not have that limit. newfs will move to
> ffs2 if needed.
>
>   -Otto
>
>


-- 
David J. Raymond
david.raym...@nmt.edu
http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond



Re: Raid0 max volume size

2019-11-09 Thread Josh Grosse
On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 07:01:02AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:
> Does raid0 allow the creation of file systems bigger than the 2 TB limit of 
> ffs?

RAID 0 stripe sizes may be as large as the smallest physical extent.  

FFS2 -- see newfs(8) -- supports a filesystem size up to 64 PB.



Re: Raid0 max volume size

2019-11-09 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 07:01:02AM -0700, Raymond, David wrote:

> Does raid0 allow the creation of file systems bigger than the 2 TB limit of 
> ffs?

Yes. And ffs in general does not have that limit. newfs will move to
ffs2 if needed.

-Otto