Re: Disk and partition sizes (Was: sun4c)

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 27 June 2012 15:54, Steve Rikli <sr%genyosha.net@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 08:17:43AM -0400, Mouse wrote:
>> > [...] there have been reports of 18GB disks in SS20's.
>>
>> One of my SS20s has been running for years with no visible issues with
>>
>> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST336607LC, 0006> SCSI3 0/direct 
>> fixed
>> sd0: 35003 MB, 49855 cyl, 2 head, 718 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 71687372 sectors
>
> I can echo that -- I ran a pair of SPARC20 DNS servers for years
> with the Fujitsu 36GB equivalent of the above.
>
> Unfortunately they've both been given away by now so I can no longer
> provide dmesg or similar debugging, but it "just worked".

So, can we find a sparc old enough to have an issue with filesystems
past the 8GB mark? Maybe there just isn't one any more with recent
NetBSD?