From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 9:19:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crotus.sc.intel.com (scfdns02.sc.intel.com [143.183.152.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C5137B416; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by crotus.sc.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.48 2001/12/13 16:27:50 root Exp $) with ESMTP id RAA00736; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:19:05 GMT Received: from chlx169.ch.intel.com (chlx169.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.37]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.14 2001/01/02 18:39:59 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id KAA24128; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:19:05 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by chlx169.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id KAA16794; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:19:07 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: chlx169.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15384.58121.214749.505032@chlx169.ch.intel.com> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:19:05 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: off_t governs the largest file size, correct? X-Mailer: VM 6.99 under Emacs 20.7.1 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 Hi all, I searched the mailing list archives looking for this information and all I found was a reference to a somewhat seemingly out-dated FAQ entry: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#AEN1006 fs block size 2.2.7-stable 3.0-current works should work 4K 4T-1 4T-1 4T-1 >4T 8K >32G 8T-1 >32G 32T-1 16K >128G 16T-1 >128G 32T-1 32K >512G 32T-1 >512G 64T-1 64K >2048G 64T-1 >2048G 128T-1 The statement before this table is: "The maximum size of a single ffs file is approximately 1G blocks (4TB) if the block size is 4K." Are this statement and these numbers still "correct" for 4.4-STABLE and/or -CURRENT? Thanks, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, CDS - Senior CAD Engineer | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message