We're thinking of changing the configuration of one of our storage nodes. 
Right now, it writes to an AFTD device that is a 2TB NTFS formatted drive 
(presented from the SAN). 2TB is the max size of an NTFS drive that was 
initialized as an MBR drive. However, if you initialize the drive as a 
GUID partition, it supports sizes greater than 2TB (so the documentation 
says).

My position is that Networker relies on the OS of the snode for reading 
and writing to AFTD devices. So as long as the OS is happy reading/writing 
to a drive larger than 2TB, then Networker won't be bothered by it, and 
will happily write more than 2TB to it (not as a single file, but in 
total). What we want to do is keep a couple weeks worth of daily backups 
on there, as a way to do fast restores. I'd still clone to tape from there 
weekly, I think.

Am I correct? NW won't be bothered accessing a drive larger than 2TB, 
formatted as a GUID parition?

Anyone else using a drive larger than 2TB, formatted as a GUID partition, 
in Windows (specifically)?

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Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
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Philadelphia, PA 19145
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