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Update that md(4) has been fixed to allow up to 16TB sizes. Thanks to Pawel

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/bigdisk/index.sgml,v 1.1 2004/09/12 18:33:10 scottl Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/bigdisk/index.sgml,v 1.2 2004/09/16 22:28:48 brueffer Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "Large data storage in FreeBSD">
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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<tr>
<td>md</td>
<td>&a.scottl;</td>
<td>12 Sept 2004</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>A number of sizes and offsets are tracked using the 'unsigned'
data type, so it appears that it cannot comprehend sizes greater
than 2TB with a 512 byte sector size. For the swap-backed module,
the page counter is also stored as a 32-bit quantity which also
might be a limiting factor.</td>
<td>&a.pjd;</td>
<td>17 Sept 2004</td>
<td>&status.done;</td>
<td>Swap backed disks can now be created up to 16TB in size on i386.
This corresponds to 2^32*4096.</td>
</tr>
</table>