From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 3:44:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C610137B408 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 03:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 9 May 2002 11:44:37 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 175lNA-0007Ac-00; Thu, 09 May 2002 11:42:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 11:42:08 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Jon Ringuette Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terabyte array In-Reply-To: <3CD9BB43.1060904@imeme.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 May 2002, Jon Ringuette wrote: > Sorry to bother everyone, but I am about to embark on building a > Terabyte array using an Adaptec 5400S controller and around 15 SCSI > 181gb drives. My question is if FreeBSD's filesystem can support a > terabyte on a single label and also what is the current restrictions on > max file size? 31 bits' worth of 512-byte sectors for FS size - I think that comes out at 1TB. File byte count is a u_int64_t, so it's limited by FS size too. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Bolstered by my success with vi, I proceeded to learn C with 'learn c'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message