From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SglbI-0007BS-OK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:43:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E551AE07D0; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:42:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81223E06B7 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so1962957wib.10 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:41:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PJinSr1QCVZtTrymW/iMnVYerjpSaz/mMw02PFbVo18=; b=V011t0DzIGZKBXQIpSvSoR+HBJufhYvwuzyzBL+9DJlnZom6dH9AJb7+h6+7MlEVFP x4+Evc651S3TqXJJjsrzVYq7QMSccOVECbXXXbmt4ykGliZpvaF9dh4Bf1HuaDUuvb0R Y2sl8TOskGfMMkGo/AylCuw2WJfHZFSsEBFUGpcGw6aHZZFVBbTo73zKhfoWzJluyCHu 1NazAz4/tbneg8+noqP7qMvdjCaayz/S9QH7AvogB13CQer92ibGjFulHUMTj0z3FJgI 2l5xld7g2D/BETTTqyT7vvd6eqtiL0cy/H9vTgrdI0EmYvgL8m7F0EM6RfqsdeTE8yyZ ZT6Q== Received: by 10.216.144.201 with SMTP id n51mr10259936wej.73.1340062898726; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-91-138.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.91.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hv7sm50952686wib.0.2012.06.18.16.41.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:37:32 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations Message-ID: <20120619013732.0e24c388@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20120618061624.GJ4722@crowfix.com> <4FDF3753.6070000@coolmail.se> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e2fbc2d0-82e0-4937-b52c-678aac5c4c97 X-Archives-Hash: 82fff7c5fda4c23202e098d99d48d9e2 On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: [snip] > Felix, did you follow any > analogous steps for the 4TB drives? > > (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my > aggregate volumes.) Completely OT but what the heck: :-) I built a 12TB FreeNAS Storage box for the home and dared the wife to fill it with content. For purposes of illustration I told her that this was an awful lot of data - 1357 raw DVD movie rips for example. "Go for it honey!" I said thinking the myself "She will NEVER fill that, or even come close!" The joke's on me. After 6 weeks, she's halfway there ^_^ -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com