From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 12:40:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5575437B401 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 12:40:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E1F43FCB for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 12:40:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h21KesGe037025; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:40:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:40:54 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Francesco Casadei Cc: Jesse Geddis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem size Message-ID: <20030301204054.GF72112@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030301092649.GA525@goku.kasby> <20030301121311.GA306@goku.kasby> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030301121311.GA306@goku.kasby> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 In the last episode (Mar 01), Francesco Casadei said: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 02:07:05AM -0800, Jesse Geddis wrote: > > Thank you, It didn't mention what if any (and i don't believe there > > is one) size limitation there is on an nvs mounted volume. Do you > > know of one? Specifically, we have a 9tb NetApp we want to make > > sure we aren't going to have to make a bunch of little filesystems > > on. > > I'm not an NFS expert, but according to RFC1813 NFSv3 supports 64 > bits file sizes and offsets. This says nothing about filesystem size > though. I'm sorry I don't know the right answer to your question, but > I suggest you to look at http://www.rfc.net/ and search for NFS. > Searching on http://groups.google.com/ may also be useful (I've found > a lot of threads about this topic). An NFS client does not care how big the server's volume is; it only cares about individual files. You should have no trouble accessing the NetApp's storage from a FreeBSD client. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message