review request: 2TB disk limit in disks chapter
Simon L. Nielsen
simon at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 13 20:50:03 UTC 2004
On 2004.09.13 13:21:07 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> People are starting to build disk arrays larger then 2TB and then
> finding they can't label them. I'd like to add some text like the
> following to the handbook section on adding disks. A table of
Great, documenting this is very useful!
> capabilities would probably be useful and could be an intresting project
> for someone who wanted to do a little research, but I'm specificaly
> trying to address bsdlabel at this point.
>
> Please review my changes below.
All the entities should be closed, e.g. "&man.bsdlabel.8" should be
"&man.bsdlabel.8;".
> Index: chapter.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.220
> diff -u -p -r1.220 chapter.sgml
> --- chapter.sgml 25 Aug 2004 10:33:59 -0000 1.220
> +++ chapter.sgml 13 Sep 2004 20:14:19 -0000
> @@ -202,6 +202,12 @@
> case, the drive will be added simply as
> <filename>/dev/da1e</filename>.</para>
>
> + <para>Due to the use of 32-bit integers to store the number of sectors,
I think there is trailing whitespace on this line (unless it's just my
MUA/editor).
> + &man.bsdlabel.8, &man.disklabel.8, &man.fdisk.8, and
Isn't disklabel just a link to the local label (bsdlabel/sunlabel
etc.) now?
> + <application>sunlabel</application> are all limited to 2^32-1
You should also use a manual page entity for sunlabel.
> + sectors. This usually translates to a 2TB limit on disk size.
> + For larger disks, &man.gpt.8 partitions may be used.</para>
Shouldn't that be "2TB limits on partition size.", since you can AFAIR?
make multiple <2TB partitions on one "disk"(/RAID)?
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Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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