Limits of the Apple Partition Map
Bradley Pearce <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:16:00 -0400
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Hi. I just came across a potential concern for one of my NetBSD systems. It's an Apple Network Server 700/200 with an external SATA raid box. I partitioned that raid as below: (From pdisk): Name of device: /dev/wd0 Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/wd0' #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 2: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 ext.raid 3906928560 @ 64 ( 1.8T) S2 UFS k0 /usr 3: Apple_Free Extra 16 @ 3906928624 Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=3906928640 (1.8T) DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 So, I used an Apple partition map when I set that up (via pdisk). Doesn't the APM have a size limitation? The raid is working fine and I am storing *real* things on there. I didn't encounter any issues partitioning and formatting. Have I put myself into a position where I might start silently loosing data because of the APM? Such as, once I've filled it up past some APM limit, the data past that become unreadable, or such? Or am I ok? Thanks, Bradley Pearce